# Supporters storm Brasília government buildings

Date: 2023

On 8 January 2023, following the defeat of then-[president Jair Bolsonaro](/people/jair-bolsonaro) in the 2022 Brazilian general election and the inauguration of his successor [Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva](/people/env-person-lula), a mob of Bolsonaro's supporters attacked Brazil's federal government buildings in the capital, Brasília. The mob invaded and caused deliberate damage to the Supreme Federal Court, the National Congress Palace and the Planalto Presidential Palace in the Praça dos Três Poderes, seeking to violently overthrow the democratically elected…

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