Bolsonaristas make about 227 roadblocks and interdictions on roads in 20 states and DF

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The PRF (Federal Highway Police) recorded 227 points of blockages and interdictions this Tuesday morning (1st) in 20 states and the Federal District.

Supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro (PL), including truck drivers, started this Sunday night (30) roadblocks across the country in protest against the result of the elections, which had Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) as the winner in the dispute for the Planalto.

According to the PRF, there are blocks or interdictions in Acre (2), Amazonas (2), Bahia (2), Distrito Federal (2), Espírito Santo (9), Goiás (5), Maranhão (2 ), in Minas Gerais (18), in Mato Grosso (23), in Mato Grosso do Sul (4), in Pará (27), in Pernambuco (5), in Piauí (1), in Paraná (27), in Rio de Janeiro (11), Rio Grande do Norte (1), Rondônia (16), Rio Grande do Sul (22), Santa Catarina (38), São Paulo (8) and Tocantins (2) .

THE Sheet had access to videos in which federal police say they will not do anything about the blockades. In one of the images recorded in Palhoça (SC), a police officer says that the order is just to be there.

“The only thing I have to say right now is the only order we have is to be here with you, that’s all,” he said in the image.

The new episodes involving the PRF occur one day after the institution failed to comply with a decision by the president of the TSE (Superior Electoral Court), Alexandre de Moraes, and made approaches in public transport.

On Saturday night (29), Minister Alexandre de Moraes banned any operation by the PRF against vehicles used in public transport for voters.

The director general of the corporation, Silvinei Vasques, was at the TSE building and, in a meeting with the president of the court, Alexandre de Moraes, promised to stop all approaches on buses and obey the minister’s decision.

Federal prosecutors in the five regions of the country have already instituted proceedings on the situation of truck drivers and point to the commission, in theory, of the crime against the democratic rule of law.

One of the documents to which the Sheet had access states that the motivations for the protests “are explicitly contrary to the democratic rule of law, requiring military intervention out of mere discontent with the outcome of the presidential elections”.

The PRF also said that it applied to the AGU (Advocacy-General of the Union) to obtain an injunction from the Federal Court “as a way to peacefully guarantee the maintenance of fluidity on the highways”.

Members of the MPF, however, understand that the PRF is able to act administratively against the blocks, for example the imposition of fines, without the need for judicial support.

THE Sheetthe AGU reported that the institution’s legal opinions endorse the PRF’s official action (without the need to take the matter to the judicial sphere), as occurred in 2018, on the occasion of the truck drivers’ strike in the government of former President Michel Temer ( MDB).

Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), ordered this Monday (31) that the government immediately adopt “all necessary and sufficient measures” to clear the roads occupied by Bolsonaristas in protest of the election result. The STF formed a majority in favor of the minister’s decision.

The Minister of Justice and Public Security, Anderson Torres, said that he determined the reinforcement of the PRF (Federal Highway Police) to normalize the flow on the highways. The statement was given on social media on Monday night (31).

“Status of road stoppages being monitored minute by minute by the @PRFBrasil and @gov_pf I have just determined a reinforcement of personnel, and means of support, for all possible actions to normalize the flow on the highways, with the brevity that the situation requires”, said the minister.

This Tuesday morning (1st), Torres said that the PRF continues to act on the roads. ” A @PRFBrasil continues to work uninterruptedly to unblock the roads. From 18:00 on 30/10 to 05:30 on 01/11, 192 blocking points have already been eliminated,” he said.

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