A demonstration in Joinville, Santa Catarina, in southern Brazil, has gathered thousands of people contesting the results of the elections for the presidency of the Republic.
However, defenders of President Jair Bolsonaro (Liberal Party – PL, right) do not contest the state election results, where candidate Jorginho Mello (PL) of the same party won for governor.
The mobilization on holiday (Nov. 2) included the federal deputy Colonel Armando (PL/SC).
“We have to be present in a peaceful way, not on the road, but in the streets,” declared the deputy, a personal friend of the president. On the other hand, several highways that cut through the country remained blocked since the election results.
Supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro concentrated in the center of Joinville, Santa Catarina’s largest city, in front of the 62 Army Infantry Battalion barracks, with flags and banners, wearing green and yellow. The protest was against the election results.
“We are not leftist.”
“We have to be present in a peaceful way for Brazil and the world to see that we are not the left,” says the parliamentarian. “We who produce will sustain a country where the left will destroy us,” argues deputy Coronel Armando.
For the deputy, the protests occurred peacefully.
For him, this is “an election that has everything to have been rigged, but that we have no way to prove.” “The majority of Brazil is from the right,” he maintains.
The result, endorsed by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), affirms the incontrovertible victory of the left, led by former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
NAZI SALUTES ARE INVESTIGATED
In the west of Santa Catarina, protesters who also contest the elections sang the Brazilian National Anthem with Nazi gestures and salutes. The political act happened on Wednesday morning (2).
German immigrants and other nationalities have settled in the region.
The Public Ministry of Santa Catarina is investigating the case to identify as many people as possible to subpoena and take depositions.
Nazi idolatry is considered a crime in Brazil.
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