In a bid to restore democracy in Brazil, the support for Brazil’s ousted President Rousseff remains high as Brazilians called for fresh elections after the impeachment of the former president Dilma Rousseff by the Brazilian Senate.
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The opposition dismissed the president’s figures: “The coup president of Brazil said that our demonstration would have 40 people”. Subsequently, however, Sao Paulo’s Workers Party Mayor Fernando Haddad negotiated with Alckmin to secure a permit for the protest.
The rally began peacefully but police used tear gas, stun grenades and water cannon as clashes broke out at the end. Then, to everyone’s surprise, the police arrived and dropped tear gas outside and inside Faria Lima metro station. The results from the Senate vote had some celebrating and others protesting.
It was the largest of a wave of protests since the new leader was sworn in last week.
“They are small groups, it appears that the groups are minimal, right?” “In a population of 204 million Brazilians, they are not representative”.
The organizers said 50,000 people turned out for the march to a square in western Sao Paulo that included families with children, witnesses said.
So, now that Rousseff is out, what’s next for the country? She started her political career and lived there before working for the administration of her predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the capital Brasilia. He claimed that the economic policies being pursued by Temer, including a 20-year social spending freeze, massive cuts to social security benefits and a counter-reform of labor laws, were necessary to reverse the country’s deep economic crisis, which has driven the official unemployment rate to almost 12 percent.
An organization of riot police unexpectedly determined to change course.
The demonstration filled over eight blocks of Paulista Avenue, one of Sao Paulo’s major streets. The Workers Party-affiliated trade union federation, the CUT, sent only its functionaries, mobilizing no section of workers from the industrial districts surrounding the city.
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Another protest is expected Wednesday, which marks Brazil’s Independence Day and is often a focal point of protests. A video of protesters singing “Temer Out” to the tune of Handel’s “Messiah” had been watched, at the time of publication, about 220,000 times on the Facebook page of an independent media network called Jornalistas Livres – or Free Journalists.
