Less than a week after Brazilian President Lula da Silva assumed power, supporters of his right-wing predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, stormed the Congress headquarters, the presidential palace, and the Federal Court in the capital, Brasilia, in a scene that some observers likened to storming the US Congress building - on January 6, 2021 - from Supporters of former US President Donald Trump kissed him after he lost the presidential election.
And the Brazilian police arrested 150 people who stormed government buildings and committed acts of vandalism, and additional forces were mobilized to support the police forces in the capital, Brasilia.
The security forces had regained control of the presidential palace, the headquarters of the parliament and the Supreme Court, after the first attack of its kind on state institutions in Brazil in 40 years.
These actions drew widespread international condemnation, most notably from US President Joe Biden, who wrote - in a tweet - "Brazilian democratic institutions have our full support, and the will of the Brazilian people must not be undermined... I look forward to continuing to work with Lula."
And the episode (9/1/2023) of the “Networks” program monitored the interaction of activists and tweeters on communication platforms with what is happening in Brazil, where an account called “The Owner of the Character” wrote that “populism … the root of every sin in politics, and the evil of every calamity for countries And homelands, its merchandise is bankruptcy, and its market is the mob.”
For his part, Fawaz Fahoum accused the former Brazilian president of planning chaos and fleeing the country. .
While Osama Simsim saw that January was "the month of storming," he wrote in his tweet, "January remained (became) the month of storming congressional headquarters in Western countries."
In turn, an account bearing the name Monica likened what happened in Brazil to what happened in Washington by storming the US Congress, and said, "What is happening in Brazil is dangerous. Bolsonaro follows in Trump's footsteps and does not accept the results."
On the other hand, Jose called for an investigation into the election results, considering that what happened was a natural reaction, commenting, "There is no legitimacy for any government in the absence of transparency. Why hide the truth and refuse to investigate the results? Isn't this exactly what is required in the rule of law?"
Brazilian President Lula da Silva condemned - in a televised interview - the attacks on government headquarters, and stressed the accountability and arrest of all those involved in barbaric acts, stressing that the state is able to protect democracy from the Nazis and fascists, he said.