Roadblocks intensified Tuesday morning in Brazil two days after Lula was elected president, with many truckers and pro-Bolsonaro protesters refusing to accept defeat for the far-right president.
The Federal Highway Police (PRF) reported 250 total or partial roadblocks in at least 23 of Brazil’s 27 states.
blocked buses
“No Lula!” was written on a panel hanging over a viaduct in Sao Paulo, the economic capital, where several roads were also blocked, in particular the one that connects the great metropolis with Rio de Janeiro, preventing the departure of buses between the two cities.
Santa Catarina (South), where Jair Bolsonaro obtained almost 70% of the votes, is the state with the highest number of roads blocked.
“I hope to return home” to Rio. “I was able to pay for a night in a hotel here, but a lot of people had to sleep here at the bus station,” said real estate agent Rosangela Senna, 62.
A Supreme Court judge ordered the “immediate unblocking of roads and public highways,” the institution said in a statement late Monday.
He ordered the PRF to take “all necessary measures” to clear the roads, or risk fining or jailing its chief executive for “disobedience.”
Bolsonaro still does not admit defeat
More than 36 hours after the official results, the outgoing president, Jair Bolsonaro, still does not admit his defeat in the cable (50.9%-49.1%), unlike several allies of his government.
Many foreign heads of state have congratulated Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the left-wing candidate, for his third term as head of the country, after those from 2003 to 2010, which will officially begin on January 1.
In the capital Brasilia, the police restricted since Monday night the access of vehicles to the Plaza de los Tres Poderes, where the Presidential Palace, the Parliament and the Supreme Court are located, near the immense esplanade of the ministries, place of meeting. in the capital.
This “preventive” measure was taken “after the identification of a possible demonstration convened in this place on social networks”, the Secretary of Public Security of the federal district of Brasilia had indicated.
Source: BFM TV
