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Dozens of war tanks paraded through the central avenues of Brasilia this Tuesday morning under the watchful eye of President Jair Bolsonaro, perched on top of the Planalto Palace with the heads of the Armed Forces.

It wasn't the classic Independence Day military parade, but something

exceptional.

The official explanation is that it was a preliminary to 'Operation Formosa', some military exercises that the Navy will organize next week on the outskirts of Brasilia. These exercises have been carried out every year since 1988, but for the first time the tanks

skirted the official buildings of the National Congress,

in a disturbing image mainly due to an unhappy "coincidence".

For most opposition politicians and even government allies, Bolsonaro improvised the parade as a gesture of

intimidation to the judiciary

and the deputies, who this very Tuesday were going to vote on the government's proposal to replace the current electronic voting system by the printed vote, facing the 2022 elections. Bolsonaro has been

tightening the rope

with the legislature and the judges for

weeks

to get his proposal through.

"With this parade Bolsonaro believes that he is showing strength, but in reality he is showing all the weakness of a president cornered by corruption investigations (....) There will

be no

printed vote,

there will be no kind of coup

against our democracy. Institutions, with Congress in the forefront, will not let that happen. Democracy has instruments to defend itself against coup outbreaks, "said Senator Omar Aziz, who chairs the commission that investigates possible crimes committed by the Government in the management of the pandemic.

Precisely, in the spotlight there are dozens of soldiers who were placed in the Ministry of Health and whose

disastrous management

in the purchase of vaccines against Covid-19 ended up costing thousands of lives in the country. For many analysts, the parade of the war armor, although dressed as "coincidence" would be a sign of support from the highest military spheres for Bolsonaro's authoritarian plans.

The president assures, without evidence and continuously spreading 'fake news' on his social networks, that electronic ballot boxes are a door for fraud, despite the fact that he himself and his children were elected with this same system for years.

In reality, the proposal aims to

delegitimize the current electoral system and then question the result

in the event of defeat, as Trump did in the US.

Brazilian parliamentarians know this and the government is increasingly alone in its defense of the printed vote.

It has not yet been voted on, but it is expected that Bolsonaro's proposal will be definitively buried by a large majority.

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