Former Brazilian President Michel Temer considered this Wednesday that the invasion of supporters of former head of state Jair Bolsonaro into public buildings in Brasilia “was an indescribable aggression against the powers of the State,” he said that it was “an aggression against democracy.”
“(…) What happened in the last days [domingo] It was an unspeakable aggression against the powers of the State, because the invasion of buildings is not only a physical thing, it is an aggression against the powers of the State that guarantee democracy and, therefore, it is an aggression against democracy itself,” he said. Fear in an interview with RTP3.
Watching with “a lot of civic sadness and a lot of institutional sadness” what happened last Sunday in the Brazilian capital, the also former vice president added, however, that “very soon” the country “will resume the normal course of things.”
Asked about possible culprits, Temer indicated that there is “a lot of doubt” in Brazil.
“One of the removals that you gave was from the governor of the Federal District [Ibaneis Rocha]. It is based on the fact that the Secretary of Public Security, who had ordered his arrest, will have organized the means and forms to prevent (…) the attacks. (…) It is also said that the federal highway police did nothing. That there was collusion with the protesters (…). In Brazil there are still many doubts, ”he said.
Temer also said that Jair Bolsonaro should have publicly recognized Lula da Silva as the new president of Brazil.
“I should have it. I don’t think there is any reason for that. (…) He has his reasons which, for me, are subjective,” he stressed.
Michel Temer, 82, was Dilma Rousseff’s vice president from 2011 to 2016, but replaced her as head of state (2016-2018) after her controversial removal by Congress for fiscal irregularities.
Now out of public life, Temer was also a respected parliamentarian for the center-right Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) for several decades.
Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro invaded and vandalized the headquarters of the STF, Congress and the Planalto Palace in Brasilia on Sunday, forcing police to intervene to restore order and drawing condemnation from the international community.
The Military Police managed to retake control of the headquarters of the three powers, in an operation that resulted in around 1,500 detainees.
The Brazilian Federal Police reported that around 600 detainees accused of participating in the events, mostly elderly people over 65, women with young children and people with serious comorbidities, were released to respond in freedom.
The invasion began after Brazilian far-right militants who support the former president, defeated by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in last October’s elections, called a protest on the Esplanada dos Ministérios in the Brazilian capital.
However, the judge of the Federal Supreme Court Alexandre de Moraes dismissed the governor of the Federal District, Ibaneis Rocha, for 90 days, considering that both the governor and the former Secretary of Security and former Minister of Justice of Bolsonaro Anderson Torres have acted with negligence and omission .
Torres is the subject of an arrest warrant that has not yet been served because he is traveling to the United States.
Source: TSF
