Minister of the Institutional Security Office is the first resignation of Lula da Silva’s government – World

President Lula da Silva’s government had its first casualty this Wednesday, just over three and a half months after being sworn in. The Minister of the Institutional Security Office, GSI, General Gonçalves Dias, resigned after the release of images that apparently show him helping radical allies of Jair Bolsonaro who on January 8 invaded and destroyed the presidential palace.

In the images, exhibited this Wednesday by CNN Brazil, you can see the general, who is responsible for both Lula’s security and the Planalto Palace, seat of the presidency, and the Alvorada Palace, the official residence, walking and talking quietly with the extremists through the corridors of the invaded palace. At another moment, the general apparently indicates to the invaders that, in addition to the presidential palace, they invaded and destroyed Congress and the Federal Supreme Court, demanding Lula’s downfall and Bolsonaro’s return, where the building’s emergency exit is, so that the invaders , considered terrorists by the STF, could flee if the police arrived.

Gonçalves Dias is one of the few generals very close to Lula, who trusted him without question, to the point of appointing him to head his personal security during the troubled presidential campaign in 2022. the general asked to be removed from office until the end of the investigations, but the repercussion of the images was so strong and so negative that the military was forced to leave the government permanently.