Posted on 03/02/2024 6:53:00 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday led a large rally of his supporters in São Paulo as he denied allegations that he took part in a coup plot in an attempt to stay in power.
Thousands of Bolsonaro’s followers wearing the green and gold of Brazil’s national flag thronged Paulista Avenue, a major thoroughfare in the country’s largest city, in a show of support for the former leader as he faces mounting legal challenges.
The far-right populist had called for the protest rally last week on social media platform X, calling it in “defense of the democratic rule of the law.”
Bolsonaro faces a Brazilian Federal Police investigation into an alleged attempted coup plot to keep him in power after he lost the 2022 presidential election, his lawyer confirmed in early February.
Several former ministers who served in Bolsonaro’s government are also being investigated and some of his aides have been arrested, according to CNN affiliate CNN Brasil.
Bolsonaro on Sunday insisted he is being persecuted, without directly mentioning the institutions handling the investigation, CNN Brasil reported.
Last year, Bolsonaro was barred from running for political office until 2030 by the country’s highest electoral court for abusing his power and misusing public media during the 2022 election campaign.
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Brazil is not much different from the USA when it comes to being Banana Republic governments.
“Populist” = Anything a leftist disagrees with, or a person who blocks a leftist from power.
The global cabal stole the presidency of Bolsonaro, just as they did with DJT.
The main difference is that USA is more economically developed. Otherwise, everything is similar. It's just that they speak Portuguese while we speak English.
“The far-right populist...”
That’s pretty much all I have to say about this.
As we have found out, here, leftists will do anything to achieve power and even more to keep it.
The other difference is their chief justice lead their coup. Ours is still waffling.
I think John Roberts is not sure who’s going to win. Otherwise, he would have chose sides by now.
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