The Brazilian military have shown their support for the Brazilian people by declaring Bolsonaro the ‘true President of Brazil’ following evidence of a rigged election.
Bolsonaro is now huddling with the military to plot his next moves.
Revolver.news reports: What is Article 142? The lying New York Times explains:
Many of the protesters said their demands for intervention were supported by Article 142 of the Brazilian Constitution, which says that the military has the role of “guaranteeing constitutional powers” under the “supreme authority of the president.”
They go on to pooh-pooh it citing “experts”:
According to constitutional lawyers and past court rulings, the article does not allow the military to take control of the government.
More from the NYT:
BRASÍLIA — They arrived by the tens of thousands on Wednesday, angry and draped in Brazilian flags, massing outside military bases across the country. They were there, they said, to save Brazil’s democracy from a rigged election, and there was only one way to do so: The armed forces needed to take control of the government.
It was an alarming demand in a country that suffered under a two-decade military dictatorship until 1985 — and yet another bizarre twist in the aftermath of Brazil’s polarizing elections.
A day earlier, the far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, reluctantly agreed to a transfer of power after 45 hours of silence following his loss to a leftist former leader, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. But after Mr. Bolsonaro’s years of unfounded attacks on Brazil’s election systems, his supporters appeared far from accepting defeat.
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The widespread protests and calls for the armed forces were an escalation of the Brazilian far-right’s refusal to accept the election of Mr. da Silva, a former president whom many on the right view as a criminal because of his past corruption scandal.
Mr. Bolsonaro, in a two-minute speech on Tuesday in which he did not acknowledge his loss, said he supported peaceful protests inspired by “feelings of injustice in the electoral process.”
Many of his followers saw that as a stamp of approval. “What he said yesterday, that gave me more energy to come,” said Larissa Oliveira da Silva, 22, who was sitting on a beach chair in the protest in São Paulo, propping up her broken foot. “After his comments, I saw that he is on our side.”
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The sooner the rest of the world awakens from its self-deception the better.
Good on the Brazilian military! Get it done, gents!
President Bolsonaro is not extreme right, he is center right. Lula is on the left and is supported by the extreme left.
Elections have great evidence of fraud, but justice denies being audited, censors and arrests any supporter of Pr Bolsonaro for their opinions.
O Presidente Bolsonaro não é de extrema direita, é de centro direita. O Lula é sim de esquerda e é apoiado pela extrema esquerda.
As eleições tem grandes indícios de fraude, mas a justiça nega que seja auditado, censura e prende qualquer apoiador do Pr bolsonaro por suas opiniões.