The commanders of the Brazilian Army, Navy and Air Force released a joint communiqué on Friday in which they reaffirmed their focus on their «constitutional role» as well as their «unwavering» commitment to the Brazilian people, democracy and the country’s political and social harmony.
The note has been published while mobilizations and encampments continue in front of several military units throughout the country, in which their participants have been protesting against the results of the past elections between prayers and demands for a coup d’état.
In reference to these «popular demonstrations», the commanders of the Armed Forces have underlined that they are allowed by law and that they condemn «possible excesses» that «may restrict individual and collective rights».
«Both possible restrictions of rights by public agents and possible excesses committed in demonstrations that may restrict individual and collective rights, or put public safety at risk, are condemnable,» the communiqué states.
«Excesses» such as those experienced in the state of Santa Catalina, where dozens of followers of Jair Bolsonaro swore flag under the Nazi salute, or placed minors as human shields in the blockades that were imposed on several highways across the country after the electoral victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
The note, signed by Navy Admiral Almir Garnier dos Santos, Army General Marco Antônio Freire Gomes and Brigadier Lieutenant Carlos de Almeida Baptista, insists that the new «authorities of the Republic» remain attentive «to all the legal and legitimate demands of the population.
The three military men close by underlining that they believe «in the importance of the powers», especially of the Legislative, «the House of the People», the space for «the desires and lawsuits of the population, in the name of which it legislates and acts».
