Brazil found itself suddenly paralysed and sliced after thousands of the outgoing president’s supporters blocked 227 key roads in it, including fast ones connecting the major cities and states, in protest against his loss in the second round of the elections that took place last Sunday. His left-wing opponent, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, emerged from it in first place.
After the results were announced late on Sunday night, Bolsonaro remained silent until he left the presidential palace in Brazil’s capital, Brasilia, on Tuesday afternoon. In that speech, he thanked the 58 million Brazilians who had cast their votes for him and pledged to “adhere to all the norms of the constitution.” Without admitting the defeat directly, but he said, according to what we hear in the video that Al Arabiya.
The following is from the website: Leading the millions of Brazilians who defend economic and religious freedom is a great honour “as he stated.
The extremist right -wing added, with his speech that took less than two minutes: “Our strong representation in Congress represents our values, which is God, the homeland and the family.
“He advised his supporters to protest in a nonviolent manner, without mentioning his defeat or contesting the results, and he avoided mentioning his opponent’s victory in his address, who received 50.9% of the votes, or 60 million, to Polsonaro’s 49.1%, despite being ten years older and 76 years old.
According to reports of traffic blocking incidents shortly after the announcement of the election results in roads 24 out of Millions and 500 thousand square kilometres, with residents of more than 217 million, some of his supporters are cut off from roads and the construction of barriers on them; they are drivers of trucks they stopped.
According to the video displayed, the Federal Highway Police reported 342 accidents yesterday that cut into a variety of roads. Despite warnings from the authorities that they would fine each driver 100,000 Brazilian riyals, or 19,300 dollars per hour, the cutting of roads persisted, especially in the states of the Brazilian south, which led to a serious upheaval that has been particularly detrimental to the food supply.
Fears of Bolsonaro also started to complicate the two-month transitional period, before the president-elected president took the constitutional oath on the first day of next January, with the remembrance of the hostile statements he had previously launched, including “God alone, who is able to remove my position.” In addition, he had hinted before the elections that he may not want to transfer power, by questioning the voting system.
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Supporters of Bolsonaro demonstrate and close numerous Brazilian highways.
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