Fifty supporters of Bolsonaro gathered in Lisbon to denounce “election fraud”.

Around 50 Brazilian supporters of Jair Bolsonaro gathered this Sunday in Lisbon’s Comercio Square to denounce what they see as “electoral fraud” by rejecting Lula da Silva’s victory in October’s presidential election.

“We are peaceful, democratic, we are here against corruption, against the legislature and judiciary that stole our elections from us,” said Joyce, one of those who took the impromptu stage on the steps of the statue of D. José. I am reaching out to the fence of 50 people who resisted the cold and the rain to take part in the protest.

“We don’t have an organization, we are a movement of Brazilian friends and acquaintances who are in Portugal, and we want to condemn that they stole our elections from us and silenced the people,” Joyce told Lusa, surrounded by a photo of Brazilian activists and politicians with a cross above the lips, displaying what he classified as “the censorship and dictatorship that Brazil has become today.”

The speeches repeated the thesis promoted by Bolsonaro’s supporters about the existence of electoral fraud and the impossibility of recounting the votes that brought victory to Luis Inacio “Lula” da Silva.

By the way, the president of the Workers’ Party (PT) has been a theme that has always been present in the interventions, when he was accused of “destroying Brazil”, degrading institutions and even being ineligible to run for president. .

The typical Bolsonarist slogans “Lula, thief, your place is in prison” and “We spend the night, but the thief does not come up the ladder”, alluding to the path that the president took to get the head of the state belt, were sung several times during this initiatives.

Protests against Lula da Silva’s victory in the presidential election and in favor of military intervention gained momentum again last week in Brazil, boosted by a national holiday for the Proclamation of the Republic, when thousands of demonstrators gathered in front of barracks in several Brazilian states.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 77, won the Brazilian presidential election on October 30 by a narrow margin, receiving 50.9% of the vote against 49.1% for then-president Jair Bolsonaro, who was running for a new four-year term. Elections confirmed by the Higher Electoral Court (TSE) and the presence of fraud in respect of which was not indicated in the report prepared by the armed forces on the process.

Lula da Silva, who has already served two terms from 2003 to 2011, will take office for the third time as President of Brazil on January 1.