PRF says all highways are free of total blockages

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The PRF (Federal Highway Police) said that all federal roads are free of blockages, when there is total interruption of the flow of the lane. However, there are still 24 blocked roads, that is, with partial obstruction.

“All federal highways free of blockages. Occurrences on federal highways in Brazil: Total protests undone: 936; Interdiction (flow partially impeded): 24; Blockade (flow totally impeded): 0”, he said, in a note.

On Thursday night, there were only three states with partial bans on federal highways: Mato Grosso, Pará and Rondônia, according to the PRF.

On Wednesday night, President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) published a video on his social networks in which he asks his supporters to clear the highways that are obstructed.

“I want to appeal to you: clear the highways, this is not, in my opinion, part of these legitimate demonstrations. We are not going to lose our legitimacy here,” he says. “Protest otherwise, in other places, that this is very welcome, it’s part of our democracy.”

This was the second statement made by Bolsonaro. The first speech after being defeated in the elections frustrated those who expected the president to explicitly ask for the demobilization of road blocks, made by supporters who dispute without evidence the results of the polls and call for a coup.

At the time, the president had said that the movement is “the result of indignation and a feeling of injustice at the way in which the electoral process took place” – supporting the coup movement. He then said, however, that the methods of his supporters “cannot be those of the left” nor include curtailing the right to come and go.

Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the STF (Federal Supreme Court), ordered on Monday (31) that the government immediately adopt “all necessary and sufficient measures” to clear the roads occupied by Bolsonaristas in protest over the results of the elections. Afterwards, the STF formed a majority in favor of 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.

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