The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has strongly condemned the assault of hundreds of supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Congress in the framework of a demonstration against the new president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, while also showing his support for his Brazilian counterpart and has urged a return to “normalcy”.
“All my support for President @LulaOficial and for the institutions freely and democratically elected by the Brazilian people. We strongly condemn the assault on the Brazilian Congress and call for an immediate return to democratic normality,” Sánchez wrote in a message on Twitter, collected by Europa Press.
Likewise, the second vice president and Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, has expressed her concern after hundreds of Bolsonaro sympathizers have overcome the police barriers and invaded the headquarters of the Brazilian Congress, the presidential palace, the Planalto Palace, and the headquarters of the Federal Supreme Court in Brasilia this Sunday.
Thus, Díaz has expressed his support for President Lula da Silva and has stressed that “a minority will not be able to break the will of the Brazilian people. We will continue to expand democracy and conquer more rights,” he added on social networks.
Along the same lines, the third vice president and minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, has described the news and images coming from Brazil as “terrible” and has supported the president-elect while showing her “forceful” rejection “to what is happening.
For her part, the president of the Congress of Deputies, Mertixell Batet, has assured that she is following the news of the assault “with concern” and has conveyed her support and solidarity to Lula da Silva and the Brazilian authorities in the face of the “intolerable attack on the institutions and democracy”, he wrote on his Twitter profile.
In the same way, the Minister of Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda, Ione Belarra, has conveyed her “maximum concern” with the images arriving from Brazil. “When the extreme right does not achieve its electoral objectives despite fake news, hatred and corruption, it ignores democracy and the coups begin. Strength the Brazilian people and its president @LulaOficial”, he wrote on his Twitter profile.
The PSOE has also shown its rejection of what happened, condemning the assault by the “ultra-right” on the headquarters of the powers of the Brazilian State. “Democracy is stronger. Democracy will prevail,” the PSOE has written in its official account.
The general secretary and spokesperson for the Popular Party, Cuca Gamarra, has taken advantage of the situation of Brazilian chaos to launch a direct dart at Pedro Sánchez. “With you, in Spain this is now a simple public disorder”, she has written in response to the President’s tweet.
He has also published another tweet in which he has stated that “the coup has no place anywhere” and has emphasized reminding people “how fragile democracies are also and the obligation to strengthen and protect them.”
