Supporters of Brazilian former President Jair Bolsonaro clash with the police during a demonstration outside the Planalto Palace in Brasilia on January 8, 2023. - Brazilian police used tear gas Sunday to repel hundreds of supporters of far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro after they stormed onto Congress grounds one week after President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva's inauguration, an AFP photographer witnessed. (Photo by EVARISTO SA / AFP)
BRASILIA – In what is being called the copycat breach, the Brazilian far right has reportedly breached the main buildings of all three branches of government to protest claimed stolen election.
Protesters are reportedly clashing with the police at Planalto Palace, the Chamber of Deputies, and the Supreme Federal Court building.
After the results of the Brazilian presidential elections were finalized, supporters of then president Jair Bolsonaro launched nationwide protests against what they claimed was a stolen mandate.
fearing a repeat of what happened in the United States on January 6, 2021, the Brazilian civil society urged the military to intervene but the military decline saying the right to protest is enshrined in the country’s constitution.
Bolsonaro reshuffled the Brazilian military leadership shortly before he left office, and is currently believed to be in the United States having skipped the transition as his ally Donald Trump did two years ago.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva beat incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in a runoff election last year and was sworn in as the new Brazilian president on January 1, 2023.
More on this developing story from DNT Correspondent Ken Bright in due course
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