After Sunday’s assault on Brazilian institutions, several congressmen have begun to gather the necessary support to establish a parliamentary commission in both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies to investigate the involvement of former President Jair Bolsonaro in these acts.
In the style of the committee in the United States that during the last year investigated the degree of involvement of former President Donald Trump in the assault on the Capitol, Senator Soraya Thronicke of the Union of Brazil has already proposed through the appropriate channels the opening of a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI).
The proposal of Thronicke, rival of Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the first round of the elections, has already been supported by other senators such as Humberto Costa, of the Workers’ Party (PT); Randolfe Rodrigues of Red; and Eliziane Gama, of Citizenship, details the newspaper ‘O Globo’.
For his part, PT deputy Rogério Correia has announced on Twitter that he will also carry out a similar proposal within the Chamber. «I’m going to propose a CPI of the coup!» he wrote on the aforementioned social network.
«Only with Bolsonaro imprisoned will we have peace and democracy. No rest until this does not happen. I will permanently express myself in this sense during my mandate. From now on I commit myself to request an ICC on these events,» wrote Correia, who will need at least 171 supporters among the 513 seats in the Chamber.
In the face of these facts, Bolsonaro has disengaged himself and denied any kind of responsibility in what happened, as has been denounced by President Lula’s cabinet. The Minister of Justice, Flávio Dino, recalled that the former president has led a «conflictive transition» by not recognizing the results of the elections and defending alleged theories of fraud.
Thousands of followers of Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro have stormed this Sunday the headquarters of the National Congress, the Planalto Palace and the Supreme Court in Brasilia, after several months of mobilizations and violent protests due to their dissatisfaction with the victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the polls.
As a consequence of these attacks, President Lula has decreed the federal intervention of Brasília to assume security powers, stressing that the «fascist vandals» who caused the chaos will be «persecuted» and «punished».
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
