The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, is increasingly weakened politically. Last blow to date: a judge of the Supreme Court released on Friday the content of a video of a meeting during which the president and his ministers multiply insults, swear words and slippages, in the framework of an investigation aimed at The head of state.
Loop images on television
The official video of the ministerial meeting of April 22, supposedly confidential, was handed over by the government to justice. Judge Celso de Mello decided to release this key exhibit from the investigation to establish whether the President attempted to illegally interfere in police investigations of some of his relatives. These accusations were made by the former Minister of Justice, Sergio Moro, a very popular former anti-corruption judge who resigned smashed a month ago. His resignation came two days after the meeting he attended.
At this meeting, whose images are looped on Brazilian TV channels, we can especially see Jair Bolsonaro complaining about not getting information from the federal police. At another point, he said, "I don't want to wait for my family to get fucked" to change the heads of "security" in Rio de Janeiro. Knowing that the video could be broadcast, the president himself said last week that he was referring to the safety of his family and not to law enforcement such as the federal police.
Minister of Education insults Supreme Court
But the video is also full of slippages from the Head of State on other subjects. He says for example that he wishes to "arm the population". "It's easy to impose a dictatorship, an asshole mayor takes a bastard decree and confines people to their homes. If they were armed, they would go to the streets, ”he says. A reference to the containment measures taken by the governors of most states in an attempt to stem the coronavirus pandemic.
The Minister of Education, Abraham Weintraub, attacked the Supreme Court: "If it was up to me, I would throw all these assholes in prison, starting with those of the Supreme Court". The Minister of the Environment, Ricardo Salles, wants to take advantage of the "opportunity that the press is focused on the coronavirus" to "pass reforms and soften the rules" related in particular to the preservation of the Amazon .
Institutional crisis
The broadcasting of this video is particularly embarrassing for a government bogged down in a serious institutional crisis. The same judge, Celso de Mello, had earlier today submitted a request to the attorney general for opposition parliamentarians demanding the seizure of the president's phone. General Augusto Heleno, Minister of the Institutional Security Cabinet, stressed that this request could have "unforeseeable consequences for national security". The judge submitted the parliamentarians' request to the general prosecutor Augusto Aras, who must now decide whether he considers it admissible or not.
World
Second departure in one month for a Minister of Health in Brazil
Planet
Record deforestation in the Amazon since January
- Insult
- Jair Bolsonaro
- World
- Brazil
- Corruption