“... and are intended for:
- the defense of the Country
- for the guarantee of the constitutional powers
- and, on the initiative of any of these, of law and order
(CA No. 18, 1998; CA No. 41, 2003)
The last 2 seem pretty cut and dried for Bolsonaro.
He will tread lightly.
Brazil is having a \We the People\ moment.
We note that “services” (police, regional enforcement, etc.) are joining in with the Brazilian people.
When we see regional military joining in, Bolsanaro will know that the military will not hesitate to restore L&O and “guarantee the constitutional powers”.
He must not assume anything.
Brazil is still a Christian nation.
[Which is why I think that the USA, having lost Christianity, is several steps behind Brazil...Pity, that.]
True the more citizens that join the protest the better and with law enforcement joining tells the leftist hacks in Brazil that the people know about the fraud and are not fooled. Making it easier for the military to invoke Article 142 without much blow back from the citizens.
He also has a non-military option but given its bureaucracy would probably never happen:
TITLE V
The Defenze of the State and
of the Democratic Institutions
CHAPTER I
The State of Defense and the State of Siege
SECTION I
The State of Defense
Article 136. The President of the Republic may, after hearing the Council of the
Republic and the National Defense Council, decree a state of defense to preserve or
to promptly re-establish, in specific and restricted locations, the public order or the
social peace threatened by serious and imminent institutional instability or affected
by major natural calamities.
Paragraph 1. The decree instituting the state of defense shall determine the period
of its duration, shall specify the areas to be encompassed and shall indicate, within
the terms and limitations of the law, the coercive measures to be in force from among
the following:
I – restrictions to the rights of:
a) assembly, even if held within associations;
b) secrecy of correspondence;
c) secrecy of telegraph and telephone communication;
II – in the event of a public calamity, occupation and temporary use of public
property and services, the Union being liable for the resulting damages and costs.
Paragraph 2. The state of defense shall not exceed thirty days and it may be
extended once for an identical period if the reasons that justified its decreeing persist.
Paragraph 3. During the period in which the state of defense is in force:
I – arrest for a crime against the State, determined by the party executing
the measure, shall be immediately communicated by such party to the competent
judge, who shall remit it if it is illegal, it being the arrested person’s choice to request
examination of corpus delicti from the police authority;
II – the communication shall be accompanied by a statement by the authority
as to the physical and mental state of the arrested person at the time of the filing of
the charges;
III – the imprisonment or detention of any person shall not exceed ten days,
unless authorized by the Judicial Power;
IV – incommunicability of the arrested person is forbidden.
Paragraph 4. Upon decreeing a state of defense or extension thereof, the President
of the Republic shall, within twenty-four hours, submit the act with the respective
justification to the National Congress, which shall decide by absolute majority.
Paragraph 5. If the National Congress is in recess, it shall be called extraordinarily
within five days.
Paragraph 6. The National Congress shall examine the decree within ten days as from
receipt thereof, and shall remain in operation as long as the state of defense is in force.
Paragraph 7. If the decree is rejected, the state of defense shall cease immediately
.... Bolsonaro says that “peaceful demonstrations” against injustice are welcome, but his movement should not “adopt the methods of the left” ..... He did not concede defeat, or congratulate Lula
Also the fascist/socialist Rouseff was impeached, so despite the gaslighting by the MSM and their twins in Brazil, Brazilians are not as big of fans of fascism as the propaganda says they are.