Brazilians protest in their thousands against granting Bolsonaro amnesty | Brazil
Tens of thousands of Brazilians went to the streets to demand that their country should not be forgiven by former President Jair Bolsonaro after being convicted of planning a coup.
The extreme right populist was sentenced to 27 years in prison at the beginning of this month because he tried to stick to power illegally after he lost his 2022 presidential elections to leftist Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva.
On Sunday, the big crowds expressed their opposition to Rightwing efforts to help Bolsonaro escape from Bolsonaro to escape Bolsonaro to assassinate Bolsonaro, Lula, Vice President, Geraldo Alckmin and the Supreme Court judge.
Pro-democracy protests were pioneered by the most popular musicians in Brazil, including the triple legendary songwriters who were at the forefront of the country’s ruthless 1964-85 military dictatorship: Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque and Gilberto Gil.
“The Brazilian people chose Lula-and that’s why democracy in Brazil continues, ”83-year-old Veloso told tens of thousands of demonstrators who brave the temperature of Rio’s Copacabana beach.
While Veloso, Buarque and Gil realized a series of dictatorship classics by Sound by the Sound, the crowd “Sem Anistia” (no Amnesty Organization ”).
Veloso said on the eve of the walk, as in the past, as a nation – we must go to the streets to say that we will not accept it, ”he said.
The protesters also expressed anger how the conservative dominant lower house of Brazil approved the draft legislation condemned by critics as a “bandit bill ,, which made it difficult for the deputies to be accused or arrested for alleged crimes.
The stage and the stars of the screen emerged during walks in other big cities to solve Bolsonaro’s efforts to reduce the punishment and congress efforts as part of the politically divided South American country.
“Living live democracy! Long live Brazil!” Actor Wagner Moura, the Golden Globe Candidate, told a protester sea in Salvador, the capital of Bahia, the capital of his state.
Netflix drama Narcos’s star Moura greeted the “extraordinary moment ğı in which his country’s democracy lived after the historical conviction of Bolsonaro.
In São Paulo, tens of thousands of people gathered outside the art museum of the city and lifted a giant Brazilian flag on their heads – a patriotic reaction to Trump’s unsuccessful attempts to intervene in Bolsonaro’s campaign with pressures and sanctions.
At a rally in Belo Horizonte, local singer Fernanda Takai condemned the “shameless” maneuvers to help Bolsonaro Dodge Prison, and they refrain from taking into account the mistakes of politicians. “We have to take an attitude to show how angry we are,” Takai said Estado de Minas newspaper.
In the capital, Brasília, where Bolsonaro is currently under house arrest, gathered near the congress and the Supreme Court buildings thrown into the trash by the radicals on the right point of the former president’s coup attempt on 8 January 2023.
In addition, there were protests abroad, including Berlin, Lisbon and London, where the demonstrators were gathered outside the parliament to demand the imprisonment of Bolsonaro.
Before the rallies, Buarque, who was forced to exile in Italy during the military dictatorship in the late 1960s, revealed the idea of an amnesty for Bolsonaro.
“We don’t want the repetition of the 1979 amnesty… This meant that no one was punished [for the regime’s crimes]”Famous singer-Question writer said News Website Uol.
Buarque rejected the idea that giving an amnesty to Bolsonaro and seven common conspiracy would reduce political tensions. “They were the Putsists who committed the crime. We [democrats] He doesn’t owe them nothing. ”
