These are the demonstrations that took place all over the country on Sunday.
Alessandre de Moraís, a judge of the Federal Supreme Court (FSM) of Brazil, allowed an investigation into the organization of actions in support of the military coup and the overthrow of the “representative democracy regime”, as requested by the Attorney General’s Office the day before. This was reported on Tuesday by the Globo television channel.
These are the demonstrations that took place on Sunday throughout the country, demanding the closure of democratic institutions such as the National Congress (Brazilian Parliament) and FES. In its decision, the judge agreed with the arguments of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, calling the violations described in them “grossest”, clarifies the channel. “It is extremely important to check the existence of organizers, schemes of financing demonstrations against democracy, facts of mass mailing of messages containing elements of an attempt on the republican system,” the channel quotes a document.
According to the prosecutors, members of the federal parliament are involved in the organization of these rallies, and therefore the permission of the highest judicial authority is required for the collection of evidence. According to the channel, the investigation will be held in secrecy.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro took part in one of such actions, held in front of the building of the General Staff of the Land Forces of the country. The footage posted on his Facebook account shows the Head of State meeting several hundred demonstrators. Many had national flags and banners demanding “intervention by the military under Bolsonaro’s command” in order to limit the powers of Parliament and the FES (similar to what happened during the military dictatorship).
The Head of State himself is not mentioned in the prosecutor’s petition among the possible organizers. The politician claims that his speech was not directed against other branches of power, and the actions themselves were timed to coincide with the Day of the Ground Forces, celebrated on Sunday.