Minister Faria told Reuters that Bolsonaro was expected to meet with members of the Federal Supreme Court before delivering his speech.
Bolsonaro’s political allies, including his chief of staff Ciro Nogueira, have already begun making contact with Lula’s team to discuss a transition. Some, including the speaker of the lower house, have publicly said the government should respect the election result.
Truckers, who have benefited from the president’s lowering of diesel costs, are a key constituency for Bolsonaro and have disrupted Brazil’s economy in the past by shutting down roads.
Brazil’s highest court has ordered police to clear dozens of roadblocks set up by supporters of the president to protest the election defeat, while the far-right leader remained silent.
The president of the Brazilian Association of Supermarkets (Abras), João Galassi, said Tuesday that the sector is already having supply difficulties.
The Federal Highway Police (PRF) said truckers were blocking roads at hundreds of points, partially or totally, as part of protests that have spread to at least 21 Brazilian states. He added that hundreds of other roadblocks had been cleared.
Some truckers have posted videos calling for a military coup to prevent Lula, a leftist who was president of Brazil from 2003 to 2010, from taking office.
“Honest Brazilians are against the return of that gang that looted the state coffers,” said trucker Vando Soares. “We will not move until that bandit is prevented from taking over as president.”
The blocked roads included reference roads used to transport grain from agricultural states to ports, as well as a major highway linking the country’s two largest cities, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.
The main access road to Sao Paulo’s Guarulhos international airport, the country’s busiest, was also blocked. (Reporting by Gabriel Araujo in Sao Paulo and Ricardo Brito in Brasilia.
Source: Ambito
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