Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, said on Monday that the Brazilian people “deserve to suffer” if in the next presidential election in 2022, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva votes, who has not yet confirmed his candidacy.
Bolsonaro’s statements to his followers at the exit of Palau de l’Alvorada, along with an evangelical pastor and a Catholic chaplain without a mask, are given after the Federal Supreme Court last week upheld the annulment of the sentences handed down against the former leader of the Workers’ Party (PT), before which the Brazilian president was anticipated by stating that Lula “is already a candidate.”
“It was an eight to three, interpret as they please,” he questioned in reference to the Supreme Court’s decision.
Also, in reference to Lula’s administrations, he has considered that “the people get used to the benefits” of social plans, while he has defended “meritocracy”, while admitting that it is “difficult to implement”.
Also with regard to the 2022 elections, he has said that he will have to choose a party with which to run before April, as the Alliance for Brazil is not ready, according to ‘Correio Braziliense’.
“In the elections of the year, whoever is elected nominates two (judges) for the Supreme Court in the first quarter of 2023,” he added, insisting that “if you are a guy in my line, there will be four (judges) that things will change “.
On the criticism he has received for his management of the pandemic in Brazil, the second most affected country in the world, Bolsonaro has considered that even if he is accused of “genocide”, “the damage to the quarantines” is greater, with “a schoolless generation, people dying of depression, economic bankruptcy.”