Senator Randolfe Rodrigues has announced that he will present to Brazil’s Supreme Court a petition to include the still first lady, Michelle Bolsonaro, within its investigation for the Bolsonaro protests that took place this Monday in the accreditation of the victory Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
In his brief, Rodrigues asks the Supreme Court to prevent the surroundings of the Alvorada Palace from once again becoming a pilgrimage center and camping space for Bolsonaro supporters who still refuse to recognize the victory in the last elections of President-elect Lula da Silva.
At the same time, he also demands that charges of terrorism be brought against those responsible for the Monday night protests in Brasília, where vehicles and urban furniture were burned, confrontation with the authorities and even an attempt to invade a Federal Police station.
The inclusion of Michelle Bolsonaro in the investigation, argues Rodrigues, is based on the fact that she delivered food to people who remained in the vicinity of the official residence, from which Bolsonaro has hardly left since he was defeated in the October 30 elections.
Social networks have been filled with videos in which apparently a security member of the presidential facilities delivers food to protesters on behalf of the still Brazilian first lady, details the newspaper ‘O Globo’.
On the eve of Lula obtaining from the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) the accreditation of his victory, the most radical sectors of Bolsonarism have been encouraging the rest of the president’s supporters to go to the Alvorada Palace to participate in a sort of «resistance vigil».
Although the ceremony passed without apparent incidents, these later moved to several streets of Brasilia, where confrontations with the Police and acts of vandalism were recorded after the arrest of the indigenous pastor José Acácio Serere Xavante, who it was learned that after speaking with Jair Bolsonaro summoned «armed people» to prevent the accreditation of the TSE.
The violent episodes of these last hours have led to the reinforcement of the security of Lula da Silva and the vice-president-elect Geraldo Alckmin, although the future Minister of Justice, Flávio Dino, has ruled out that at some point they could have been at risk.
«At no time was President Lula exposed to any risk. At this moment he is absolutely safe and will continue to be so until he assumes and continues to exercise his functions», said Dino, who said that the necessary measures will be taken against those who have tried to subvert the democratic order.
