Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will have to reshuffle his team once again. Education Minister Abraham Weintraub announced his resignation on Thursday after a series of controversies. The 48-year-old minister made the announcement in a video posted on Twitter, where he appears next to the president.
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In total, The government has known since the coming to power of Jair Bolsonaro a dozen resignations or dismissals of ministers, such as recently the last two holders of Health, in full pandemic of the coronavirus.
A position at the World Bank
An economist by training, Abraham Weintraub, a fervent supporter of the far-right president, announced that he would take up a post "in the coming days" at the World Bank and did not wish "for the moment to speak of the reasons for ( his departure ". But the causes seem obvious. Since taking office in April 2019, the Minister has been the most controversial figure in the government. He made racist anti-Chinese statements, downplayed Nazi atrocities, and called the Supreme Court justices "assholes" who should be "thrown in jail." Carrying less consequence but disturbing for a Minister of Education, his spelling mistakes have made him the laughing stock of Internet users.
Above all, the latest episode: Sunday, Abraham Weintraub had participated in a demonstration of radical bolsonarists against the Supreme Court in Brasilia and had been fined 2,000 reals (330 euros) for not wearing a protective mask against the coronavirus , theoretically compulsory in Brazil where the pandemic is soaring.
President keeps support
The minister's departure is therefore not entirely a surprise. He was expected, especially since his inflammatory comments on the judges of the Supreme Court, the institution with which Jair Bolsonaro is currently engaged in a showdown. The High Court in hand over various investigations potentially devastating for the President and his relatives and the departure of the Minister was seen as a gesture of appeasement towards her.
The passage of Abraham Weintraub to the ministry will have been marked by sharp drops in credits to federal universities having thrown hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in the streets, in May 2019. Anxious to express his support for this unconditional faithful, the president has spoke of their shared love of "freedom" and rewarded his now former minister with a handshake and hug.
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