Video in which the Army commander orders the results of the polls to be respected is circulating on the networks

The event at which the commander spoke took place last Wednesday (18), but is still circulating on social media.

“It doesn’t matter who is in command, we will carry out the mission in the same way”, says Tomás Miguel Miné Ribeiro Paiva, adding that “being a soldier means defending the Homeland, it means having an apolitical, non-partisan State institution. It doesn’t matter who is in command, we will accomplish the mission the same way.”

The speeches of General Tomás Ribeiro Paiva were made during a tribute to the soldiers killed in an earthquake in Haiti, in January 2010, when Brazilian troops were part of the 11th contingent of the MINUSTAH (United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti).

Members of the armed forces, active and reserve, are singled out for supporting, in some way, the acts in front of barracks, demanding that the military intervene in politics to change the results of the elections that gave victory to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ( PT).

Officially, the Armed Forces deny any support for the coup.

Criticized by Bolsonarists

For supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro who still maintains a coup idea, the commander's speeches were not well received and criticism was rife on the internet:

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