And he indicated in a statement to the Southern Transitional Council, that “the decision was taken in light of the news that the displacement aims to strengthen the anti-democratic actions carried out throughout the country after the announcement of the election results.”
Alexandre de Moraes also specified the identification of the trucks so that a fine of 100,000 riyals per hour (about 20,000 euros) could be applied to their owners.
And they arrived, Wednesday, in Brasilia to go to the headquarters of the army and join the demonstrators in the camp who are calling for military intervention, on the day the armed forces issued the report on the elections.
Although there were no indications of fraud, the armed forces report released today raised doubts about the credibility of the presidential voting system on October 30, in elections that international observers and the Electoral Tribunal see as complied with international standards.
Until today, the Brazilian Ministry of Defense came to explain that “the careful work of the military technicians team in the inspection of the electronic voting system, although not indicated, also did not exclude the possibility of fraud or inconsistencies in the electronic voting machines and in the process of the election of 2022.”
At the request of Jair Bolsonaro, the military participated for the first time as observers of the elections and the voting system, which had been the target of a smear campaign by the Brazilian leader in the months leading up to the elections, despite the fact that opinion polls were not the subject of allegations of fraud.
Truck drivers set up hundreds of roadblocks across the country in the three days after the election, but sparked protests after Bolsonaro urged his supporters not to cut off citizens’ freedom of movement.
On November 2, a public holiday, thousands of people demonstrated outside military barracks in major Brazilian capitals to demand a coup against the election results.
With 100% of the votes counted, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva won Sunday’s presidential election by a slim margin, taking 50.9% of the vote, compared to 49.1% for Jair Bolsonaro, who was seeking a new four-year term.
Lula da Silva will take over the presidency of Brazil again on January 1, 2023 for a third term, having ruled the country between 2003 and 2010.
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