Brazil: Lawyers linked to Lula da Silva want “repression” of protesters

The Prerogativas group, made up of jurists, lawyers and public defenders who are left-wing activists, intends to sue the courts to force Brazilian Defense Minister José Múcio to force protesters opposed to Lula da Silva’s election to leave the front of the Army’s headquarters.

The acts, which are investigated by the Justice of the Federal Supreme Court, Alexandre de Moraes, call for a thorough investigation of the elections and possible military intervention. The minister also said he believed that the acts should gradually lose support, without repression.

“When the former president handed over his office, he left, and vice president Mourão made the statement and asked people to return to their homes. Those demonstrations in the camp, and I say this with great authority because I have family and friends there, are a manifestation of democracy,” Múcio told journalists on Monday 2nd.

The coordinator of the leftist group, Marco Aurélio de Carvalho, says that it is “unacceptable that the anti-democratic demonstrations have not been harshly reprimanded.”

“The government needs to take energetic and pedagogical actions. The people who are there are not protesting for rights or against hunger in the country. They are inciting hatred, in a clear attempt to encourage a military coup, which is intolerable,” he told Folha de S.Paulo, this Wednesday, 4.

With information from Revista Oeste