John Adoyi, PBA Journalism MenteePresident of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has vowed to punish the supporters of formal President Jair Bolsonaro, who lay siege on government buildings in Brasilia, the country’s capital.
Videos on social media show thousands of protesters climbing and breaking things in buildings of the presidential palace, the Supreme Court and the parliament in the state capital.
President Lula da Silva, who described the chaos created by the rioters as “acts of vandals and fascists,” said all the protesters and their financiers would be found and they will face the full force of the law.
“We are going to find out who the financiers of these vandals who went to Brasilia are and they will all pay with the force of law,” President Lula said.
Bolsonaro who has refused to accept defeat in the last election held in October that saw him lose to Lula, blamed his lost on electoral fraud caused by the electronic voting system which he claimed malfunctioned and gave his votes to his opponent.
Bolsonaro lost the election after second round voting, scoring 49 per cent of the votes against 50.1 percent gained by Lula Lula.
President Lula accused Bolsonaro of goading the rioters by his speeches, and called him a “genocidist” adding, “Everybody knows there are various speeches of the ex-president encouraging this.”
Bolsonaro countered Lula’s claims saying they are not true.
The formal president also said he does not support violent protest.
Politics in the South American country has been facing difficult times.
Formal presidents, senior politicians have been jailed for their role in the corruption that has bedeviled the country.
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