The protests scheduled for September 7 will represent an "
ultimatum
" for two Supreme Court justices with whom Jair Bolsonaro began a standoff for several weeks, the Brazilian president warned on Friday (September 3).
The far-right leader will take part in these demonstrations of support for his government that he hopes will be massive on Tuesday across the country on the occasion of the national holiday, an attempted show of force in the midst of an institutional crisis.
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We cannot allow one or two people to use their power to bring the country in another direction,
" said Jair Bolsonaro during an official ceremony in the state of Bahia (northeast).
“
The message you leave them in the street next Tuesday will be an ultimatum for these two people.
Respect the Constitution, our freedom, and understand that you are going in the wrong direction,
”he added.
The head of state was referring to Supreme Court judges Alexandre de Moraes and Luis Roberto Barroso.
Dissemination of false information
The first decided in particular to open an investigation against the president for disseminating false information and ordered searches of several of his supporters suspected of organizing or financing anti-democratic demonstrations. Judge Moraes went further on Friday, issuing an arrest warrant for Bolsonarist blogger Wellington Macedo on suspicion of planning violent protests on September 7, Brazil's independence day. Luis Roberto Barroso is also president of the Higher Electoral Court (TSE), and strongly opposed President Bolsonaro over the electronic ballot system.
The Head of State, who has treated Judge Barroso as an "
imbecile
" on several occasions, regularly reports
electoral
"
fraud
" - without ever presenting any evidence - considering in particular that he should have been elected from the very start. round in 2018. He also cast doubt on the holding of the presidential election of 2022, affirming for example in July: "
Either we are doing proper elections in Brazil, or there will be no elections
". After the invasion of the Capitol in Washington in January, the Brazilian president warned that Brazil would have "
an even worse problem than in the United States.
If he continued to use the electronic voting system in 2022, when the president, governors, deputies and part of the senators must be elected.