{"id":499677,"date":"2023-01-12T09:44:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T09:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=499677"},"modified":"2023-01-22T09:59:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T09:59:27","slug":"u-s-brazilian-lawmakers-stand-in-solidarity-against-attempts-to-overturn-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/u-s-brazilian-lawmakers-stand-in-solidarity-against-attempts-to-overturn-elections","title":{"rendered":"U.S., Brazilian lawmakers stand in solidarity against attempts to overturn elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 12 (UPI) &#8212; In a stand against far-right extremist attempts to undermine democracy, more than 70 U.S. and Brazilian politicians are condemning efforts to overturn elections results in both countries. Bolsonaro supporters storm the National Congress in Brasilia, Brazil, on Sunday. Lawmakers in the United States and Brazil on Wednesday have come together to condemn such attacks on democracy. Photo by Andre Borges\/EPA-EFE In a statement released Wednesday night by Rep. Ilhan Omar , D-Min., the lawmakers condemned Sunday&#8217;s attack by supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on the presidential palace, Congress and Supreme Court , and the Jan. 6, 2021, attack by supporters of former U.S. President Donald Trump on the U.S. Congress. &#8220;As lawmakers in Brazil and the United States, we stand united against the efforts by authoritarian, anti-democratic far-right actors to overturn legitimate election results and overthrow our democracies,&#8221; the lawmakers said. The legislators also accused supporters of both presidents of coordinating efforts to attack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a stand against far-right extremist attempts to undermine democracy, more than 70 U.S. and Brazilian politicians are condemning efforts to overturn elections results in both countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}