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After almost six months of work, the special commission opened in the Brazilian Senate to investigate the management of the pandemic reached a devastating conclusion: President Jair Bolsonaro must be charged with ten crimes: "Epidemic resulting in death, violation of sanitary measure, incitement to crime, falsification of documents, irregular use of public funds, prevarication, crimes against humanity, crimes of responsibility, violation of social rights and incompatibility with the decorum of the position ".

There is no precedent for something like this in recent Brazilian history.

Opening the session for the final reading of the report, the president of the commission, Senator

Omar Aziz

, warned: "No citizen is above the law, and that is valid for President Jair Bolsonaro. He will be investigated because there is very great evidence. against him (...) he committed many crimes and will pay for them. " The report attributes to Bolsonaro a good part of the

blame for the more than 600,000 Brazilians who lost their lives

during the pandemic, for defending from the beginning the thesis of herd immunity, stimulating the contagion of the population, always advised by a 'parallel cabinet ', with advice far from scientific criteria.

According to the senators, the most serious accusation, that of a crime against humanity, is sustained by the repeated defense that Bolsonaro made all this time of drugs that were not effective against Covid-19.

"Human beings were used as guinea pigs,"

lamented the author of the text, Senator

Renan Calheiros

. The dramatic case of the city of Manaus is especially mentioned, where hundreds died from lack of oxygen in hospitals, while the only thing the Government did in the face of shortage alerts was to send tons of chloroquine, an absolutely useless medicine. The report also cites

serious omissions in the specific case of indigenous peoples

, but in the end the accusation of genocide was eliminated from the final draft, due to a lack of consensus among the senators.

NEGLIGENCE IN THE PURCHASE OF VACCINES

Negligence when buying vaccines is one of the central points of the report. Pfizer offered Brazil in August 2020 a total of 70 million doses, but the government repeatedly ignored the offer.

Up to 11 emails from the lab went unanswered.

In the end, the agreement with the company was signed in March of this year. If there had been more interest, at the end of 2020 Brazil would have already started vaccinating. It is also recalled that initially Bolsonaro vetoed the purchase of 46 million vaccines from the Chinese laboratory Sinovac, while spreading doubts about the efficacy and safety of the immunizer. Paradoxically, it ended up being the most used at the beginning of the vaccination campaign, thanks to the fact that the governor of São Paulo,

João Doria

, took the lead.

The vaccine scandal does not end there:

Bolsonaro would also have committed a crime of prevarication

, for not having taken any action when an official alerted him that there was a corruption scheme within the Ministry of Health to divert money with the purchase of vials.

Suddenly, there was a lot of interest in buying the Indian Covaxin vaccine

, even though it was more expensive and not approved by the regulatory agency.

The interest is explained because an intermediary company in that purchase had connections with important politicians.

The Government ignored the main laboratories of the world while giving wings to opaque companies with which to do dark business.

WHAT HAPPENS NOW

The 1,180 pages of the report leave no puppet with a head.

In total, 66 people and two companies are accused, including

four ministers, two former ministers and Bolsonaro's three sons

involved in politics: Flávio, Eduardo, and Carlos, accused of forming the "command center" for the dissemination of 'fake news 'related to the pandemic.

They are charged with a crime of incitement to crime.

The text will be voted on next week.

Once approved, it will be delivered to the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic, which with all the evidence will decide if there is a basis for filing a formal complaint against the president.

The most serious accusations against Bolsonaro will be referred to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

The criminal consequences for the president are quite diffuse, at least while he is in office and continues to be measured.

Through political means, the report

could serve to open an impeachment process

, although it is unlikely, given that Bolsonaro still maintains support in the Chamber of Deputies.

In addition, there is hardly any working time left, given that the elections are in less than a year.

Precisely, the main effect of the commission is electoral, since it wears down the president even more in the face of the 2022 elections.

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