JUST IN: Protesters backing Brazil’s former president stormed into the country’s Congress, Supreme Court and the presidential office
All three buildings are connected in the Three Powers square in Brasilia, according to“This absurd attempt to impose their will by force will not prevail,” Justice Minister Flavio Dino wrote on Twitter account, according to the. “The government of the Federal District has ensured there will be reinforcements. And the forces at our disposal are at work.”
The president was in São Paulo, and Congress was not in session, according to the newspaper. Both Congress and the presidential offices were mostly empty on Sunday. Bolsonaro, who was facing several investigations, flew to Florida in late December and planned to stay there for at least a month, thereported. He has been staying in the Orlando area at a rented house owned by a professional mixed-martial-arts fighter a few miles from Disney World.
“Today is a sad day for the Brazilian nation. We cannot agree with the plundering of the national Congress,” Valdemar Costa Neto, the head of Bolsanaro’s Liberal Party, said in a statement. “All orderly demonstrations are legitimate. Disorder has never been part of our nation’s principles. I want to tell you that we vehemently disapprove of this type of attitude and let the law be enforced, strengthening our democracy.
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