Brazilian President Lula da Silva said Wednesday that his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro is responsible for radical attacks on the headquarters of the three powers in Brazil.
“I don’t know if the ex-president ordered it, what I do know is that he is to blame because he lied to Brazilian society for four years, urging people to be armed”said Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the Planalto Palace, in a room full of Brazilian trade unionists.
“We don’t guarantee democracy with weapons, we guarantee it with culture, with books, with debate, with education, with food, employment,” stressed Lula da Silva.
The head of state added that after his “magnificent inauguration”, the attackers hoped to strike a blow through prepared people.
These statements come after Brazil’s Supreme Electoral Court gave former President Jair Bolsonaro three days to explain the contents of a draft decree declaring a state of emergency found at the residence of a former minister.
The deadline was set Monday in a decision by electoral court judge Benedito Gonçalves, who ordered the inclusion of the document in an investigation against Bolsonaro for alleged abuse of power during the October presidential campaign.
The controversial text is the draft decree that would allow Bolsonaro to declare a state of emergency to intervene in the Supreme Electoral Court and reverse the results of the October 30 elections, in which he was defeated by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. to make.
The document was found by federal police at the home of Anderson Torres, who was Bolsonaro’s justice minister and has been detained since Saturday on charges of alleged negligence, as he was responsible for security in Brasília when thousands of radicals attacked the police headquarters. invaded. president, Congress and the Federal Supreme Court (STF).
Jair Bolsonaro was also included by the STF in the list of people under investigation for the violent events of January 8, as the intellectual author and instigator of the attacks by extremists against the three powers in Brasília.
The former president, who currently resides in the United States, is suspected of inciting supporters to invade and destroy the seats of parliament, the presidency and the STF.
If Bolsonaro is found responsible for political abuse and use of official media in favor of the campaign, the electoral tribunal could sentence him to at least eight years of political disqualification.
Source: DN
