Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders will propose to the US Senate to sever ties with Brazil if Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro does not accept a possible defeat in the October presidential election and carries out repeated threats to stage a coup d’état. Bolsonaro, who ranks second in all polls, well behind his main opponent, former President Lula da Silva, is threatened almost daily that he will not accept defeat and that he will use the military to stay in power.
“It would be unacceptable for the US to recognize and work with a government that actually lost the election. This would be disastrous for the Brazilian people and would send a disastrous signal to the world about the power of democracy,” the senator said. elected in Vermont by the same party as President Joe Biden.
Sanders’ idea is to gather as many signatures as possible among his fellow senators after the US Senate reopens after recess later in August and pass a motion recommending action against Brazil if Bolsonaro carries out the threat. institutional break. This type of proposal is non-binding, it does not oblige President Biden to do anything, but it is usually taken into account by the US executive branch when deciding on the issue being voted on.
On July 26, Bernie Sanders hosted a delegation of 19 Brazilians from several important Brazilian civil society organizations in his Capitol Hill office in Washington DC. Invited by the WBO, the Washington-based Brazil office, an American organization for cooperation between the two countries, the Brazilians went to warn the US authorities of Bolsonaro’s threats and the possibility that the fledgling Brazilian democracy would fail.
“What I have heard from this environment, unfortunately, sounds very familiar to me due to the efforts of Donald Trump and his friends to undermine American democracy. I am not surprised that Bolsonaro is trying to do the same in Brazil,” he concluded. congressman, an American, alluding to the invasion of the Capitol on January 6 last year by Trump followers, who to this day does not recognize the victory of Joe Biden in the elections and, like Jair Bolsonaro, makes accusations of electoral fraud, which, however, he cannot test.
Author: Domingos Grilo Serrinha as well as Correspondent in Brazil
Source: CM Jornal
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