Pro-Bolsonaro lawmakers were frustrated on Tuesday after Senate President Rodrigo Pacheco postponed a joint congressional session in which they hoped to create a select committee to investigate the January 8 riots. They intend to use the inquiry to mislead the public about who is to blame for the storming and ransacking of government buildings — the most frontal attack on democratic institutions since the end of the military dictatorship in the mid-1980s.
Senator Marcos do Val, who is close to former President Jair Bolsonaro, said that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is “afraid” of the inquiry and claimed that the attacks on the mostly unguarded buildings housing all three branches of government were “no coincidence.” Mr. do Val promises that a motion to impeach Lula would “automatically” follow from the inquiry’s findings.
While pro-Bolsonaro lawmakers have been campaigning for a select committee on the pro-Bolsonaro riots, another has already been approved: the so-called “NGO inquiry.” The request was originally drafted in 2019 by Senator Plínio Valério and was read aloud in the Senate two weeks ago, a necessary step for the creation of a select committee.
According to Mr. Valério, the...
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