The president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) will no longer speak to the press this Tuesday (19), .
The G20 is the group made up of the 19 largest economies in the world, plus the European Union and the African Union. Lula was the host of this year’s meeting, as Brazil holds the temporary presidency of the bloc.
Also this Tuesday, the Federal Police (PF) launched an attack.
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According to PF investigations, the criminal group had the objective of preventing Lula’s inauguration and had even articulated a plan to assassinate the PT member, the vice-president. Geraldo Alckmin (PSB) and the minister Alexandre de Moraesfrom the Supreme Court.
Lula’s interview, after the end of the G20 summit, was scheduled for 5:30 pm. Brazilian journalists and those from the international press were already in position to listen to the President of the Republic, but, at around 4:50 pm, Planalto’s press office informed that the press conference had been cancelled.
Officially, at least until now, the Presidency of the Republic has not stated the reasons for canceling Lula’s interview. Unofficially, however, the argument is that Lula had a series of meetings and commitments during the afternoon, and the agendas would have overlapped, delaying the schedule.
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This Tuesday, after the closing session of the Leaders’ Summit and the transmission of the G20 presidency from Brazil to South Africa, Lula had lunch with the President of the United States, Joe Biden.
In the afternoon, the Brazilian president would also meet with the Prime Minister of Japan, Shigeru Ishiba; UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer; and the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Behind the scenes, the information is that Lula would not like to comment on the PF operation on the criminal organization that allegedly planned his murder. The president’s assessment is that the matter could, in some way, cover up the repercussions of the G20 summit, considered highly positive by the Brazilian government. As it would be practically impossible to avoid questions about the PF operation, Lula would have chosen not to grant the interview.
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Lula’s departure back to Brasília (DF) is scheduled for 6:15 pm, according to the Presidency’s official schedule. The president is expected to arrive in the federal capital at 7:40 pm.
Operation Countercoup
The investigations involving Operation Contragolpe are related to a broader investigation by the PF into the alleged activities of a criminal organization along 5 axes:
1) Virtual attacks on opponents;
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2) Attacks on institutions (such as the Federal Supreme Court and the Superior Electoral Court), the electronic voting system and the health of the electoral process;
3) Attempted Coup d’état and violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law;
4) Attacks on vaccines against Covid-19 and health measures in the pandemic and;
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5) Use of the State structure to obtain advantages, with the use of fund supplies (corporate cards) to pay personal expenses, insertion of false vaccination data against Covid-19 in the Ministry of Health systems, and diversion of goods from high asset value handed over by foreign authorities and subsequent concealment.
The operation is related to axis 3: “Attempted Coup d’état and violent Abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law”.
According to investigators, illicit operational actions were carried out by military personnel trained in the Army’s Special Forces (FE) (the so-called “black kids”). Initially, the idea was to monitor the activities of Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the STF, for later “execution of his illegal arrest and possible murder”.
Reports indicate that such monitoring would have started shortly after the meeting, held on November 12, 2022, at the residence of Walter Braga Netto, former Minister of Defense and the Civil House in the Bolsonaro administration.
Also in the plans were the murders of Lula and Alckmin, newly elected at the time, in an attempt to prevent the new government from taking office.
According to the PF, the moves to consummate a Coup d’Etat peaked between November and December 2022 and were named “2022 World Cup” by those involved.
The evidence was identified based on the analysis of data from the cell phone seized from Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid, Bolsonaro’s former aide-de-camp, and exchanges of messages with Marcelo Câmara, Bolsonaro’s former advisor, who joined the investigation into alleged embezzlement of jewelry received by the politician during his term in office.
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