Brazil’s president Lula da Silva has thanked Portugal’s head of State for being the first to condemn the invasion yesterday by pro-Bolsonaro rioters of various public buildings in Brasilia. As journalists on the ground have commented, this invasion (of Congress, the Senate and the Presidential Palace) was ‘on the cards’ since the results of the election which gave a slim majority to Lula while pro-Bolsonarists felt the results were rigged. Unrest has not been helped by the fact that former President Bolsonaro is not in the country, and seemingly refusing to condemn his supporters’ actions.
