Protesters in Brazil stormed the parliament, the Supreme Court and the presidential palace on Sunday, some even calling for the removal of President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva from the military.
Protesters waved banners saying they believed the claim that voting machines were programmed to steal elections from former President Bolsonaro, similar to signs promoting similar conspiracy theories when Trump supporters stormed Congress in the US on January 6 last year.
On January 6, 2021, Trump, still president, urged supporters at a rally in the Oval to march to the Capitol and halt congressional ratification of Joe Biden's victory, but protests in Brasilia broke out on Sunday There were few outbreaks in government offices, and Bolsonaro had already given up power and stayed in Orlando, Florida, Trump's adopted hometown, and was admitted to a hospital there on the 4th complaining of stomach pain, reported the difference on the 9th.
In terms of appearance, there are many similarities between the congressional rampage by right-wing supporters of the former president who attacked the leftist presidential election in the Brazilian presidential election and the intrusion by hardline conservative supporters of the Republican Party of Trump in the United States.
In 2019, Bolsonaro's son Eduardo, a Brazilian Congressman, signed to work with Trump advisor Steve Bannon's international populist movement. Bolsonaro's claims about rigged voting machines were amplified.
Angry protesters in Brazil on the 2nd broke into government buildings, symbols of their country's democracy, smashed windows, rummaged through lawmakers' desks and riots that lasted for hours before order was restored, fueling conspiracy theories about a candidate's defeat in the last presidential election. The structure of trashing the highest office in the United States is similar to the time of Trump.
The Sunday attack on empty government offices by supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro in the Brazilian capital is a gap from the on-duty attack on the US Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump on January 6 last year.
The demagogic populist former presidents shared close political alliances with overlapping supporters, spreading Trump's lies about losing his re-election to voter fraud and Bolsonaro's re-election defeat two months after last fall's defeat. similarly reiterated in the argument of
Former Brazilian President Bolsonaro did not declare recognition of Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election until the end, becoming the last world leader to finally acknowledge Biden's victory.
After Sunday's riots in Brasilia, Bannon called protesters "Brazilian freedom fighters" in a video on social media.
The Associated Press was a hotbed of pro-Trump fervor at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), where the two sides met in São Paulo in September, and former Trump spokesman Jason Miller, who was in attendance, was later detained by Brazilian authorities. "While we do not advocate violence, we do believe that peaceful protests are appropriate and that the situation in Brazil should be fully investigated," CPAC chief organizer Matt Schlapp said in a statement on the weekend's riots in Brazil.
The Associated Press continued, “Trump is one of Bolsonaro’s few foreign allies, and Bolsonaro often posts pictures of himself watching Trump speak, boosting the leadership of his American opponents and saying he and his son are not (Trump personal). "After Sunday's riots in Brasilia, Bannon called protesters 'Brazilian freedom fighters' in a video on social media," the report said.
Both elections, in which social media played a major role in dissatisfying the election results, misinformation about the election still grew, and posts urging Brazilians to gather in the capital on Sunday to contest the election results were posted on TikTok, Facebook, Telegram, and other platforms. It went viral on the platform.
One of the posts has received more than 800,000 views since the previous Friday, according to Brazilian fact-checker Aos Fatos.
Election results had already called for the loser Bolsonaro to blame software bugs for his losses and invalidate most electronic voting in November last year, but independent experts in Brazil rejected his argument and Bolsonaro's vote was invalidated. The attempt failed.
As for Trump's differences with Brazil, "this was not part of an organized campaign to overturn the (Brazil) election results," Christopher Garman, executive director of the Americas at the Eurasia Group, a political risk consulting group, told The Associated Press.
"Bolsonaro's hands may have been confirmed by Brazil's Supreme Court, which has been aggressively punishing misinformation about the election to the point of censoring misleading social media accounts and news reports," he said. Naru knew that if he pushed too hard, a court could rule that he couldn't run for office again, and if he followed Trump's path, his political rights would already be suspended."
“Dissident rage may sound familiar to those who follow American politics. "It's not healthy for any democracy to have this level of distrust, it's a little different animal than January 6," he said. said.<Refer to “End of left-right confrontation” due to dissatisfaction with the US two years before the Brazilian presidential election, dated November 8, 2022>
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