The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, has condemned on Sunday the riots registered in several buildings of Brazilian institutions by supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro.
«I condemn today’s assault on Brazil’s democratic institutions. The will of the Brazilian people and the country’s institutions must be respected,» said Guterres.
«I have full confidence that it will be. Brazil is a great democratic country,» the secretary general added, in a message posted on his Twitter profile in both English and Brazilian.
Thousands of Bolsonaro’s supporters have assaulted during this day the headquarters of the Congress, the Presidency and the Supreme Court, demanding military intervention and the deposition of the president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whose legitimacy they do not recognize.
The Brazilian President signed a decree for the Federal Government to assume the security competences in the district of Brasilia, before condemning the violence which «has no precedents», in what was his first public appearance after the incidents.
«It has never been done in the history of this country,» he lamented during a speech in which he recalled his own electoral defeats and the historical position of the left. Democracy, he added, guarantees freedom of expression, «but it also demands respect for the institutions».
Bolsonaro, for his part, denied after several hours of silence his responsibilities in the assault and pointed to Lula for having «accused him without evidence».
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
