Brazil’s Attorney General’s Office (PGR) has requested on Monday the director general of the Federal Highway Police (PRF) to provide information on the road blockades by truck drivers carried out in protest to the election results and to explain the measures taken in this regard.
The Brazilian Public Prosecutor’s Office has given Silveni Vasques 24 hours to explain how he has acted to «ensure the maintenance of the flow on federal highways», as well as the complete list of the blockades that have taken place this Monday.
The letter comes from the seventh room of Coordination and Review, which is in charge of the external inspection of police activity in the country, and is signed by the Deputy Attorney General of the Republic, Elizeta de Paiva Ramos.
The PRF has identified a total of 221 points of road blocked by truck drivers in protest for the victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), which have affected 16 states, according to ‘O globo’. The Highway Police has assured that it has contacted the Attorney General’s Office to request the Justice to release the circulation in those stretches.
Likewise, the Attorney General has requested information from the Public Prosecutor’s Office of each of the affected states on the measures adopted to «investigate the possible omission or facilitation» of these blockades by PRF agents.
This Monday, leaders of the 2018 mobilizations and other carriers’ entities have condemned Monday’s blockades and have rushed to recognize the result of the presidential elections with which Lula da Silva will return to the Planalto Palace more than twelve years later.
In the second round of the presidential elections held this Sunday, Lula da Silva was elected president, which means that as of January 2023 he will return to the post he left in 2010. The leader of the Workers’ Party (PT) won two million more votes, 50.9 percent of them, than his rival, Jair Bolsonaro, who more than half a day later has still not acknowledged his defeat.
