Brazil. The PS has a vote condemning Bolsonarist’s “attack on democracy”.

PS announced this Thursday the submission of a vote condemning the attack on democracy in Brazil following an attempt to forcibly undermine the constitutional order by supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.

This is the vote that will now be considered in the parliamentary committee on foreign affairshas as its first subscriber the PS parliamentary leader, Eurico Brillante Diaz, and has also been signed by socialist deputies Paulo Pisco, Francisco Cesar, Jamila Madeira and Pedro Delgado Alves.

According to PS, “supporters of Jair Bolsonaro invaded the buildings that house the headquarters of the legislative, executive and judiciary, committing acts of vandalism.” reenacting the events that took place in 2021 in Washington in the storming of the United States Capitol at the instigation of former President Donald Trump, as clearly demonstrated in the conclusions of the report of the Commission of the US Congress on the events of January 6, 2021.

As it happened in Washington, PS points out, “protesters in Brasilia had the connivance of some elements of the policewho did not use their powers to prevent the demonstrators from moving inside the buildings.”

“It is equally reprehensible that when demonstrators carry out this attack on democratic institutions and vandalize large portions of public property on their behalf, former President Jair Bolsonaro refrains from make any requests for them to stop and return to their homes”, says this vote of the PS parliamentary group.

PS later notes that “these acts of vandalism against democratic institutions were “immediately and widely condemned by the international community, with a focus on the United Nations, the European Union and the Ibero-American organizations”.

In this sense, the socialist bench asks the Assembly of the Republic to condemn “the unacceptable attack on democracy in Brazil, which is an attempt to violently undermine the constitutional order, carried out by supporters of the former President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro.”

The PS also calls for “the necessary investigations to find out its instigators and determine responsibility, hoping that the country will quickly return to social and political normality.”