Less than five days before the inauguration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Bolsonarist camp set up in the vicinity of the Army headquarters in Brasília remains mobilized, waiting for a military coup that prevents the return of the PT to power and causes growing discomfort in the transitional government and ministers of the Federal Supreme Court.
“I believe that some decision will be taken by the end of the week and that there will be an intervention by the military powers,” gas station manager Romário Lima, a member of the mobilization generated after President Jair Bolsonaro’s defeat in the second round, told Archyde.com. of the elections.
“I don’t know if the president will take any action on his part, but I believe that military power will,” followed Lima, 33 years old, who saw the crowd at the site shrink after almost two months of camping, erected in the Military Sector. (SMU) from the capital, 8 km from the Planalto Palace.
Although smaller than in November, when Archyde.com made its first visit to the site, on Tuesday the camp hosted dozens of Bolsonaro supporters in front of a stage, many of them resistant to the press.
A structure with chemical toilets, power generators and spaces for food and rest was in operation alongside banners that called for the illegal intervention of the military against what they consider –without any basis– an alleged fraudulent outcome of the elections.
The signs of vigor in the place contrasted with the declarations of members of the transitional government and the government of the Federal District, who have been saying that they expect a demobilization, at first “voluntary”, of the demonstrators before Sunday.
The pressure for an end to the pro-coup demonstration grew even more this week after the arrest of a suspect who claimed in a statement to have formulated with locals a plan to try to detonate a bomb in Brasília with the aim of triggering acts of extremist violence to prevent Lula’s inauguration – the explosive device was apprehended by the authorities.
In addition, according to investigations by public security forces, it was from there that regulars or campers left who promoted vandalism in the city on December 12, the day of Lula’s diplomation by the Superior Electoral Court, with depredation of public property, burning of cars and buses. by the streets. No one has been arrested so far for these acts.
MILITARY PERIMETER
In the transitional government, where the episodes forced the revision of security protocols for the inauguration on Sunday, it is the future Minister of Justice, Flávio Dino, who tries to impose a tougher tone against the mobilization. Dino said that, if there is no voluntary departure from the site by this Thursday, there may be “a compulsory eviction”.
At the Supreme Court, at least two ministers also defend an immediate demobilization of the camps, in addition to an investigation of eventual financiers of those who remain in these places, according to two sources heard recently.
But the solution to liberate the area involves the leadership of the Armed Forces –as the DF authorities always remember, this is a military perimeter–, and this is an issue treated with caution by the government that takes office next Sunday.
The future Minister of Defense, José Múcio, chosen by Lula to ease the tension with the military sectors, which participated massively in the Bolsonaro government, stated that the movement is mostly “peaceful” and avoided talking about removal or adding pressure on the military, which does not have so far condemned the clamors for a coup at their doors.
Múcio worked out an agreement for the change of command of the Army under the current government, with an uncertain effect on the mobilizations. Bolsonaro himself signed the anticipated change of command of the Army, with the nomination of General Júlio Cesar de Arruda, chosen by Lula for the post, and who will take over on an interim basis on Friday.
In the camp, Paulo Araújo Matos, 49, showed no fear of being removed. “We are guarded by the Army. No one, not the Federal Police or the civil police, no one takes us out of the barracks without an order from a general or one of them from inside the barracks, otherwise nobody leaves”, said he, who works as a mason in Brasília.
“People will only leave the barracks when the president announces on national television that everything has already been resolved and that we can leave”, continued Matos, quoting Bolsonaro, who has not yet acknowledged defeat for Lula.
“If power emanates from the people, who are in charge is the people, so why is someone coming to take us away? It doesn’t matter who it is. So, if they force people to leave, I don’t think that’s democratic, I think that’s authoritarianism,” said Romário Lima, the manager of a gas station.
Like Paulo Araújo, Lima said he believed the acts of vandalism were committed by alleged left-wing infiltrators, with no connection to the camp.
Contacted by Archyde.com, the Ministry of Defense forwarded the questions to the Army, which reported that the Planalto Military Command has been monitoring, on a daily basis, the activities of the camp in the SMU area, “where many demonstrators have left the site spontaneously”.
“CMP soldiers have been helping to dismantle the abandoned structures, allowing for better circulation and security in the area”, says the note, emphasizing that the actions have been coordinated with the Federal District government.
By Ricardo Brito and Victor Borges
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