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Altman: the armed party of capital has in Lula its greatest enemy.

Journalist Breno Altman, editor of the Opera Mundi website, argues in an analysis by TV 247 that the military in Jair Bolsonaro's government and the financial market are working together to keep former president Lula imprisoned; "They (the military) want to keep Lula imprisoned to impose a program on which Bolsonaro was elected. For them, any measure that relaxes Lula's prison situation is inadmissible because a scenario in which Lula is excluded from the political process is more favorable for changing the political regime and for imposing an ultraliberal program defended by financial capital in association with the majority of the Brazilian Army command."

Altman: the armed party of capital has in Lula its greatest enemy.

247 - Journalist Breno Altman, editor of the Opera Mundi website, argues in an analysis by TV 247 that the military in Jair Bolsonaro's government and the financial market are working together to keep former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva imprisoned.

After stating that Bolsonaro is under the tutelage of the military, the journalist asserts that "the armed party of capital has Lula as its great enemy, because they (the military) live by studying scenarios and know what Lula's release means."

"They want to keep Lula imprisoned to impose a program on which Bolsonaro was elected. For them, any measure that relaxes Lula's prison situation is unacceptable because a scenario in which Lula is excluded from the political process is more favorable for changing the political regime and imposing an ultraliberal program advocated by finance capital in association with the majority of the Brazilian Army command."

According to Altamn, "the military will try to restore order to the Bolsonaro government."

"The military's connection to Bolsonaro is structural. Villas Boas' role was decisive in preventing habeas corpus for former president Lula."

In citing General Villas Boas, the journalist referred to the statement made by the then-head of the Armed Forces on April 3rd of last year, when he expressed his opposition to the release of former President Lula. interview In November, he commented on his position to journalist Igor Gielow.

"I acknowledge that there was an episode where we were really on the edge, which was that tweet the day before the Supreme Court vote on the Lula issue," he said. "We felt that things could get out of control if I didn't speak out," he stated.