French elected officials, from the presidential camp and from the left-wing opposition, criticized on Sunday night the “extreme right-wing attacks” in Brazil and showed their support for President Lula after the invasion of several institutions by Bolsonarista militants.
“Solidarity with the Brazilian people, whose institutions are attacked by far-right activists. That is where the conspiracy leads, the delegitimization of a democratically elected president and the questioning of universal suffrage,” Macronist MEP Stéphane Séjourné, leader of the Renaissance party, tweeted. . .
On the left, rebel and former presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon accused Brazil’s “extreme right” of “attempting a Trump-style coup against the new left-wing president Lula.” “Solidarity with Brazilian democracy!” He wrote on the same social network.
“An extreme right that rejects the verdict of the polls”
“This is what the extreme right is all over the world! In the end always the rejection of democracy! Total support for the president of #Lula!”, also stressed the No. 1 of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure, still in Twitter.
“January 6, 2021 Washington January 8, 2023 Brasilia. The same scenario repeats itself, with an extreme right that rejects the verdict of the polls. I support Lula to reinstall democracy in Brazil,” added his fellow deputy Valérie Rabault, vice – President of the National Assembly.
Hundreds of supporters of far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro invaded Congress, the presidential palace and the Supreme Court in Brasilia on Sunday, a week after the inauguration of left-wing President Lula, whose election they reject.
Source: BFM TV
