The Brazilian Federal Police has 53 call recordings high-ranking military officers who wanted make it impossible to take power by the winner of these elections, left-wing president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva – AP reported on the night from Monday to Tuesday (local time).
– Or now there will be a civil waror later. We now have a justification for civil war. People are on the streets, we have huge support (…). Let's do it now. Talk to 01 – says Colonel Roberto Raimundo Criscuoli, a high-ranking army special forces officer, in one of the recordings.
“01” is the term used to refer to the president Brazil – explained AP.
Brazil. Recordings of the coup have been leaked
The recording is a record Criscuoli's conversations with General Mario Fernandesthen referred to as clerk number two at Bolsonaro's general secretariat. Fernandes is one of five people arrested recently on suspicion of planning to murder Lula before he took office.
Other servicemen heard in the recordings used less direct words. For example, a colonel Mauro Cid, a close associate of the right-wing presidentargued to Fernandes that it was necessary to act quickly to ensure Bolsonaro stays in power.
– I'll talk to the president. The problem is sometimes his personality. He waits, waits, waits to see where things go. To see who supports him. But sometimes time is short, right? We can't wait much longer, he said in the recording.
On none of the recordings Bolsonaro and his ministers cannot be heardand these materials are not directly related to the formal request of the police to charge the former president and his 36 associates with conspiracy to overthrow a democratically elected government – noted AP.
2022 election results in Brazil. Bolsonaro never admitted defeat
Bolsonaro repeatedly questioned the election results and never admitted defeat, although he did not provide evidence of the alleged fraud. After the elections, before Lula was sworn in, he left for the USA, where he stayed for several months. In Brazil, a court banned him from running for re-election until 2030 for trying to challenge the vote.
AP reminds that after the elections thousands of Bolsonaro supporters camped in front of military unitstrying to put pressure on the commanders to side with the then president. The media reported at the time that there was insufficient support in the highest command for the coup.
January 8, 2023, a week after Lula's inauguration, many thousands A crowd of Bolsonaro supporters stormed the Presidential Palace and the seats of Congress and the Supreme Court in Brasilia, breaking windows and destroying the interior of the buildings.