MADRID, 1 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Attorney General of the Republic (PGR) of Brazil has requested this Monday the general director of the Federal Highway Police (PRF) to provide information on road blockades by truck drivers developed as a protest against the electoral result and explain the measures taken about.
The Brazilian Public Ministry has given Silveni Vasques 24 hours to explain how it has acted to “ensure the maintenance of the flow on federal highways”, as well as the complete list of blockades that have occurred this Monday .
The document comes from the seventh room of Coordination and Review, which is responsible for carrying out the external inspection of police activity in the country, and is signed by the deputy attorney general of the Republic Elizeta de Paiva Ramos.
The PRF has identified a total of 221 points of road blocked by truckers in protest against the victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), which have affected 16 states, according to ‘O Globo’. The Highway Police has assured that it has contacted the Attorney General’s Office to request that the Justice release the circulation in those sections.
Likewise, the prosecutor has requested information from the Public Ministry of each of the affected states on the measures adopted to “investigate the possible omission or facilitation” by PRF agents of these blockades.
This Monday, the leaders of the 2018 mobilizations and other carrier entities have condemned the stoppages this Monday and have hastened to recognize the result of the presidential elections with which Lula da Silva will return to the Planalto Palace more than twelve years later.
In the second round of the presidential elections held this Sunday, Lula da Silva was elected president, so as of January 2023 he will return to the post he abandoned in 2010. The leader of the Workers’ Party (PT) managed two million more votes, 50.9 percent of them, than his rival, Jair Bolsonaro, who more than half a day later still has not conceded defeat.
