The president of the European Commission considered this Monday that the assault on Congress, the Federal Supreme Court and the Planalto Palace in Brazil constituted an “attack on democracy” and stressed her support for the President.
The attack on Brazil’s sovereign bodies “is of great concern to all of us, defenders of democracy,” said the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in a message posted on the social network Twitter.
Von der Leyen expressed his “total support” for the Brazilian president, recalling that Luís Inácio Lula da Silva “was elected freely and fairly.”
The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, also “strongly” condemned the “attack on Brazil’s democratic institutions” and expressed his “full support” for Lula da Silva, “democratically elected by millions of Brazilians through free and fair elections “. he said on Twitter.
The president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, expressed herself in the same terms, stating that she was “deeply concerned about what is happening in Brazil” and defending that “democracy must always be respected.”
On Sunday, on behalf of the 27 Member States of the European Union, the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, had already expressed his “full support” for the Brazilian president and condemned the attack on the headquarters of the three powers of the State, in Brasilia.
“The European Union reiterates its full support for President Lula and the Brazilian democratic system and stands in solidarity with the democratic institutions that are the object of this attack,” Borrell said.
Thousands of supporters of the former Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, invaded this Sunday the headquarters of the National Congress and successively the Palácio do Planalto, seat of the Government, and the building of the Federal Supreme Court, in the Brazilian capital.
The radicals, who do not recognize the result of the October 30 presidential election, in which Lula narrowly defeated Bolsonaro, have called for military intervention to oust the Brazilian president.
The Military Police managed to recover the three institutions and completely evacuate Praça dos Três Poderes, in an operation that resulted in at least 200 arrests.
The invasion, immediately condemned by the international community, began after militants from the Brazilian extreme right – supporters of the former president – called a protest on the Esplanada dos Ministérios, in Brasilia.
Source: TSF
