Supporters of Jair Bolsonaro in front of the barracks demand military intervention

Demonstrators declared in these measures that they are authorizing the outgoing president, Jair Bolsonaro, to call up the armed forces to remain in power.

The biggest business takes place in the federal capital and in the two largest cities of the country, but the lists circulated on social networks and in groups on the Telegram application have invitations to the whole country.

The protests were called on social media by far-right groups that support the president and do not recognize Luiz Inase Lula da Silva’s election victory, and are taking place in parallel with roadblocks carried out by truck drivers with the same aim since Monday.

According to the Federal Highway Police (PRF), today, a public holiday in Brazil on the Day of the Dead, there are still 167 roadblocks left by truck drivers compared to about 500 roadblocks registered on Monday, the day after the election.

At one such barricade, in the city of Baruri, in São Paulo, truck drivers refused to break the siege and were suppressed by the police with tear gas, resulting in small accidents, so far with no casualties.

Jair Bolsonaro spoke about the election result on Tuesday, two days after the official count determined Lula da Silva’s victory by a very narrow 1.8 percentage point margin.

While Bolsonaro was silent, his most radical supporters began the movement calling for a military coup by the armed forces to shut down Congress and the Federal Supreme Court (STF) to keep the incumbent president in power.

But Bolsonaro himself contradicted the protesters in his statement, despite saying that the “popular movement” came “as a result of discontent and a sense of injustice over the course of the electoral process.”

However, Jair Bolsonaro said that “peaceful demonstrations will always be welcome”, but stressed that his methods “cannot be those of the left, which has always harmed the population, such as the invasion of property or the destruction of heritage”, and stressed that no one can hinder The right to come and go.

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.