'We are facing a clear attempt to curtail people's right to vote,' says senadorhumberto as Brazilian Federal Highway Police stops soared by 80% on Election Day. 'This only happens in dictatorships.'
"I don't want to believe that it's an orchestrated action for the people not to go to vote, but it's happening at this exact moment, in the middle of Election Day, in a blitz by the Highway Patrol at the entrance to Cuité," Charles Camaraense, mayor of Cuité, a town of 20,000 inhabitants in the interior of the northeastern state of Paraíba,Camaraense described the action as a"blitz inhibiting people from going to vote... this is absurd what is happening.
"We are facing a clear attempt to curtail people's right to vote," he continued."This only happens in dictatorships.":"So far, they have not been able to explain why the Northeast, which has 27% of the electorate, has received 50% of the PRF's operations today. While the Southeast, which has 42% of the electorate, only received 8% of PRF operations."
PT leader Gleisi Hoffman, who represents the state of Paraná in the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of Brazil's Congress,"We are asking for an extension of voting in the more than 500 places where the operations took place. Prioritizing the Northeast region," she added."Elections are won by voting, not by coups and crime."