The future government of Brazil’s president-elect, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, will withdraw security powers from the Institutional Security Office (GSI, for its acronym in Portuguese) due to its link with the still head of state, Jair Bolsonaro.
According to ‘Folha de Sao Paulo’, the first evaluation carried out by the future Brazilian authorities points out that, in recent times, Bolsonaro’s supporters have been appointed within the GSI, which represents a risk for the security of the Workers’ Party (PT), the ticket in which Lula ran for the presidential elections.
Sources consulted by the aforementioned newspaper have informed that from now on the competences of the security of the president of Brazil will fall on the Federal Police and, specifically, under the leadership of the federal delegate Alexsander Castro Oliveira.
As of today, the Institutional Security Office is led by Augusto Heleno Ribeiro, a recognized Bolsonaro’s ally and who in 2019 went so far as to affirm that the military dictatorship in Brazil was really a sort of «counterrevolution» that prevented the South American country from becoming «a great Cuba».
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
