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Brazil on Sunday faced "its own January 6," one progressive journalist said as thousands of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed the presidential offices and the nation's Congress in Brasilia a week after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, commonly known as Lula, was sworn in.
Lula was in São Paulo at the time of the attack and Congress was not in session.
The attack followed months of protests by Bolsonaro supporters, who claim the election Lula won in October was stolen. Bolsonaro spent much of his presidential campaign making false claims about the integrity of the country's electoral system. The former right-wing president reluctantly accepted defeat days after the election, but in late November he officially contested Lula's victory, citing an issue with the software used in the voting system, despite independent experts' reports that it had no effect on the election's outcome.
\u201cAll eyes need to be on Brazil right now. Democracy is completely under attack. Bolsonaro supporters are invading Congress, the presidential\npalace, and realms of power in Brazil.\nUnbelievable scenes. \n\n\u201d — Dr. Jennifer Cassidy (@Dr. Jennifer Cassidy) 1673206656
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