, according to the newspaper O Globo, in an apparent attempt to root out hard-core Bolsonaro backers.
Arruda will be replaced by Gen Tomás Miguel Ribeiro Paiva, the 62-year-old head of the southeastern military command in São Paulo. In a speech posted on social media on Friday, Ribeiro Paiva urged troops to respect the result of last October’s election, which Lula won by about two million votes. “It doesn’t matter [what the result of an election is], it must be respected … It might not always be what we want, but that doesn’t matter,” Ribeiro Paiva said, insisting the military would fulfil their mission whoever their commander-in-chief was.
“As the supreme commander of the armed forces, there was nothing else Lula could do,” Jardim wrote. “Either he sacked Arruda, or he could never again hope to have control of the armed forces.” – Guardian
Reality: third world despot stacks army with loyalists
And Bolsonaro was supposedly the dangerous one