BRASILIA, November 1st.- Bolsonaro trucks continued to block streets at dawn, encouraged by the silence finally broken by the President this Tuesday when he assured that “I will continue to fulfill all the mandates of the Constitution”, but failed to do so expressly acknowledging Lula’s electoral victory.
During what appeared to be an ambiguous message lasting just two minutes, Bolsonaro revealed that “he stays in his 13” according to RT. He did not directly question the election results on Sunday and made relative accusations against the protests, although he once again seized the hatred and declared that “our methods cannot be those of the left, which have always harmed the population (… )” .
However, he joined his mobilized when he claimed that the blockades “are the result of outrage and a sense of injustice at how the electoral process was conducted,” also reiterating his unproven allegations against the electoral system and the elections.
Although the demonstrators maintained their position in many places, the Federal Road Police reported that 192 of the roadblocks had already been checked and the flow of vehicles at these points had returned to normal.
Since the day before, the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) had ordered the government to take immediate action to clear the routes blocked by truckers unwilling to accept Bolsonaro’s defeat, who would have been joined by other supporters of the president, and that put it found perpetrators would be fined.
The uniformed agency had previously spoken of more than 250 total or partial blockades in at least 23 states. According to local media, the protest outside the country’s main international airport in Sao Paulo resulted in the cancellation of several flights due to passenger delays.
The reaction is consistent with the doubts Bolsonaro sowed for several weeks about the legitimacy of the electoral process if he lost the elections, and which he is now amidst the anti-opponent hate climate he sowed during the campaign and its continued questioning of the elections has reinforced institutionality.
Some of the protesters told the media they were waiting for the results to be contested. For this reason, analysts estimated that Bolsonaro’s silence and his failure to recognize Lula’s victory had encouraged the disorder. The President did not invalidate these threats of destabilization with his words on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the transition was taking its first steps. His chief of staff, Ciro Nogueira, used the word after Bolsonaro to report that there had already been approaches to the transfer with Lula’s team, which will be led by vice-president-elect Geraldo Alckmin and will include another 50 people nominated by the new president, the new president stressed Brasil de Fato.
Among other Bolsonarist officials who have accepted defeat is Arthur Lira, President of the Chamber of Deputies, who stated that “the will of the majority expressed in the elections should never be questioned and we will move forward in building a sovereign, just and less uneven.
Ricardo Salles, former Bolsonaro executive minister and elected deputy, expressed a similar sentiment, valuing that “the outcome of the most polarized elections in Brazilian history brings with it many considerations and the need to look for ways to transform a country literally to pacify divided by half”.
Meanwhile, Lula, who called for unity and denied that there are “two Brazils” in his post-victory speech, continues to receive greetings from presidents and leaders from different countries who congratulate him on his victory.
“Yesterday I spoke to dozens of heads of state. They all want to expand alliances and joint work with Brazil on trade, the climate issue and important global issues. We are returning to the world,” wrote the PT chairman on the social network Twitter, stressing PL.