Progressive International

PROGRESSIVE INTERNATIONAL
We, elected representatives and leaders from around the world,
are sounding the alarm: On 7 September 2021, an insurrection
will endanger democracy in Brazil.
Right now, President Jair Bolsonaro and his allies — including white
supremacist groups, military police, and public officials at every level of
government — are preparing a nation-wide march against the Supreme
Court and Congress on 7 September, stoking fears of a coup in the
world’s third largest democracy.
President Bolsonaro has escalated his attacks on Brazil’s democratic
institutions in recent weeks. On 10 August, he directed an
unprecedented military parade through the capital city of Brasília,
as his allies in Congress pushed sweeping reforms to the country’s
electoral system, widely considered to be one of the most trustworthy
in the world. Bolsonaro and his government have threatened — several
times — to cancel the 2022 presidential elections if Congress fails to
approve these reforms.
Now, Bolsonaro is calling on his followers to travel to Brasília on
7 September in an act of intimidation of the country’s democratic
institutions. According to a message shared by the President on 21
August, the march is preparation for a “necessary counter-coup”
against the Congress and the Supreme Court. The message claimed
that Brazil’s “communist constitution” has taken away Bolsonaro’s
power, and accused “the Judiciary, the left, and a whole apparatus of
hidden interests” of conspiring against him.
Members of Congress in Brazil have warned that the 7 September
mobilization has been modeled on the insurrection at the United
States Capital on 6 January 2021, when then-president Donald Trump
encouraged his supporters to “stop the steal” with false claims of
electoral fraud in the 2020 presidential elections.
We are gravely concerned about the imminent threat to Brazil’s
democratic institutions — and we stand vigilant to defend them ahead

of 7 September and after. The people of Brazil have struggled for
decades to secure democracy from military rule. Bolsonaro must not
be permitted to rob them of it now.”
Signed,

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