Protestors Storm Presidential Palace National Congress Brazil

The The headquarters Brazil’s Demonstrators protesting the election of socialist were able to storm executive and legislative offices President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva SundayThe robbery of the presidential palace and also the National Congress building.

Palácio do PlanaltoYou can also call it: Planalto Palace EnglishThis is where you can find employment Brazilian The president’s office is also located on the same square as the National Congress This is BrazilAs well as the Supreme Federal Court. The Praça dos Três Poderes, or Three Towers Plaza, is in the capital city of Brasília.

Brazilian outlet Metropoles reports that a hundreds of “Bolsonarists,” or supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro, “broke through blocks that prevent the entry of non-accredited people and entered the Planalto parking lot,” before eventually making their way into the Planalto Palace and National Congress buildings.

Footage shared by American conservative activist ALX shows the moment protEstors broke through the barrier as police attempted to subdue them. Eventually the police had to retreat while the crowd stormed through.

Video from inside the Planalto Palace shows the protestors, decked out in patriotic outfits, walking through the gas around the offices.

Around 2:40 pm, the protestors also entered the National Congress building under a “shower of tear gas bombs.”

More footage shows masses of protestors climbing up the ramps on the outside of the congressional building to get inside.

Renato Souza, a reporter with Brazilian publication Portal R7, shared video from the inside of the building.

“President Lula is not on site,” he reported.

Portuguese news Outlet LUSA reports that the protestors are calling for “military intervention” to overthrow President Lula.

In response to the invasion, Lula has “decreed federal intervention in the Federal District,” according to the Brazil-based Tupi Report.

Meanwhile, Bolsonaro is suspected to have been in Orlando, Florida, since December, reported The Hill.

Diario 98 columnist George Marques reported that while the buildings were being invaded, a portion of the Bolsonaro supporters stayed behind to pray.

Lula, who was inaugurated just one week ago, won 50.83 percent of the vote compared to conservative incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, who won 49.17, in the country’s October 2 vote. There was a runoff election afterwards on October 30 which Lula won, that win was immediately ratified by the Superior Electoral Court.

Bolsonaro launched a challenge To the presidential election in later NovemberThe claim was that they were “signs of irreparable… malfunction” Some of the nation’s electronic voting machines. The Head of Lula’s Workers Party The bid was mere “chicanery.”

Lula da SilvaThe former president served consecutively for 12 years. A 2017 conviction was made for money laundering. But the court overturned it. March 2021.

With The left-leaning party is divided in a country that was split by the outcome of the elections. Supreme Court In the capital, there are no guns allowed. Brasília and suspended registered gun owners’ licenses, reports CNN.