Spain: Far-right movements threaten the entire world

The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, in his speech at the VII Conference of Ambassadors in Madrid, described the actions of Bolsonaro’s supporters in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, as “disgusting”.

Affirming that “the extreme right is behind these events and that they represent the greatest threat to democracy in the world,” Sánchez said that the events in the US were seen in Brazil “in a millimeter similar way and with known techniques.” .

“A VERY SAD AND DANGEROUS SITUATION”

The Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, in a speech on Spanish television La Sexta, stressed that there is a similarity between the incursion into Congress by supporters of former US President Donald Trump, who on January 6 left behind his second year in the US, and what happened. in Brazil.

“It is very sad and disturbing that this Trumpism movement, which we should label within political science, is emerging in a very similar way in Brazil,” Albares said. Now, there is something we need to be aware of. These forces are also present in European societies. Today, as in the last 200 years, democracy is a very fragile thing that needs to be defended more and more. he said.

Stating that the whole world supports the leadership of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil, Albares said that Bolsonaro’s supporters must “recognize the result of the elections” and that the process must result in the victory of democracy.

On the other hand, the Spanish press, referring to the general elections to be held in Spain at the end of this year, said that after the congressional raids first in the US and then in Brazil two years later, everyone in Europe asked : “Will there be an event like this with us after the elections? Will the far right accept the election results? he emphasized the need to ask the question.

WHAT HAPPENED?

Yesterday in Brazil, supporters of the far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, chanting slogans demanding the intervention of the army, broke through the police barrier and entered the National Congress building.

The police, who intervened with tear gas to disperse the protesters, were unable to prevent the groups from forcibly entering the Presidential Palace and the Supreme Court building.

Bolsonaro supporters, who stormed the National Congress and the Presidential Palace, were taken out of these buildings by security forces and control was secured. (AA)