One day after the victory of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, outgoing president Jair Bolsonaro has not yet admitted his defeat, suggesting an 'American' outcome in the presidential elections.
According to one of his ministers, Bolsonaro should speak today, but the question remains whether the far-right nationalist will accept the election result.
In a few hours there have materialized over 230 road and motorway blocks in about twenty of the country's 27 states.
Among them right-wing extremists;
then the truck drivers, who are one of the president's main electoral bases, in the past have already created serious problems for the Brazilian economy when they blocked the motorways and agricultural lobbies, which have financed and supported Bolsonaro in recent years.
Everyone expects the president to support their protests.
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Their call to reach the area of the political palaces in Brasilia, where law enforcement has set up a broad security service, resembles the attempt to emulate the assault on the Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2020 by the Trump supporters.
On Telegram they write of "armed resistance" and push to gather in front of the army headquarters in Brasilia.
A group of supporters of the president already stands with flags in the military sector near the headquarters of the army command.
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A completely different attitude is that held in the same hours by the Bolsonarist administration.
Despite the silence of the president, the minister of the presidency of Brazil, Ciro Nogueira, would have contacted representatives of the Lula campaign to offer willingness to start the transition process between the two governments in view of the handover in January.
This was reported by the spokesman for the campaign of Lula's Party of Workers (Pt), Edinho Silva.
Bolsonaro's deputy, General Hamilton Mourao, also allegedly initiated procedures for an orderly changing of the guard with the elected vice president, Geraldo Alckmin.