Former Minister of Science and Technology during Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s first term, Roberto Amaral states that the murderous plot that aimed to eliminate Lula, Alckmin and Alexandre de Moraes provides the current government with the “opportunity to strengthen itself and dodge the corner.”
“Despite so many coups d’état that have been perpetrated throughout republican history, those in uniform had never been caught by the civil authorities in such a cowardly machination”, says the former president of the PSB.
Below are excerpts from the political scientist’s article, under the title “Enough of military banditry and republican retreat”.
Our government, at the height of popular support, having just come from victorious presidential elections (with difficulty though), renounced its republican duty to assume political command of the country and dictate its course, when, in January 2023, we were attacked – the country, its people –, for an attempt at institutional uprising.
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The violence and acts of depredation on January 8, organized under the direction and collaborative omission of officers and barracks commanders, should act as a trigger for yet another coup d’état in an extensive list that never seems to end.
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The subjective conditions for the uprising had already been prepared by Jair Bolsonaro and his henchmen since the beginning of his term, with his speeches, his practice and the permanent mischaracterization of the electoral process.
The symbolic depredation of Congress, the Palácio do Planalto and the STF was the most significant act of contesting institutionality through violence, but it was not the only one.
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The investigations that the Federal Police have just forwarded to the STF inform a frightened country that in November 2022, that is, right after the presidential elections, a macabre plan was devised by active and retired generals to keep the captain in power. delinquent, defeated in his attempt to be re-elected.
The murderous plot aimed to eliminate Lula and Alckmin (elected president and vice-president) and minister Alexandre de Moraes, from the STF, and the consequent implementation of yet another military coup.
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The police investigation, already awaiting the statement of the Attorney General of the Republic, lists a gang of common criminals, more dangerous than the militiamen and drug dealers in the hills of Rio and the favelas of São Paulo, either because of the positions they held or because of the State’s weapons. that they controlled, or because of the responsibility that their uniforms should inspire.
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There is a new fact that requires registration: after being plundered, they will be, for the first time, judged and condemned (this is at least the feeling of the country) from whence the republic will be reestablished and democracy will breathe without fear – at least for some time. time…
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A sum of recent facts provides the Lula government with the opportunity to strengthen itself and escape the corner.
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We must trust that the leader of the broad front that defeated proto-fascism, encouraged by the excellent G-20 meeting, in which he led the world in a certain way, will take the opportunity to step out of the corner of the ring and take control of power into his own hands. political.
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