Brazil: filtered recording on the covid that rejects Bolsonaro – Latin America – International

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro complained on Monday to a senator with whom he had a telephone conversation about a research related to the covid-19 pandemic which the legislator recorded and disseminated on their social media.

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“I was recorded in a telephone conversation. How far did we get to Brazil?” the president protested in front of a group of supporters at the gates of his official residence in Brasilia.

The author of the recording and who released the audio was of Senator Jorge Kajuru, From the pro-government base and who in this conversation tried to justify their support for the opening of a parliamentary investigation into the government’s management of the coronavirus pandemic.

In the audio is heard a Bolsonaro protesting that this investigation is limited to federal government action and does not include governors and mayors, whom he accuses of diverting resources received from the Executive to combat the pandemic, which has already killed more than 353,000 people in the country.

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Bolsonaro is even asking Senator Kajuru to act so that the scope of the investigation is expanded, as “otherwise they will only be affected“His government and some of its collaborators, including the general Eduardo Pazuello, former Minister of Health and already investigated by the courts for their management of the pandemic.

The governor also complained, as he has already done publicly, that the Senate does not comply with several orders of dismissal he has received against four of the 11 members of the Supreme Court, Which has reaffirmed the power of governors and mayors to decide on combat measures in the covid-19, which Bolsonaro rejects.

Although the president protested the recording and subsequent dissemination of this conversation, Senator Kajuru said he warned him that he would register and disseminate it on his social media. “I warned him and he replied‘ it’s all right, everything I said is said, ’” the senator assured. According to the opposition, the conversation reveals that
Bolsonaro tries to “interfere” with both the Senate and the Supreme Court, which was described as “scandalous” by the deputy and president of the Workers’ Party (PT), Gleisi Hoffmann.

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In his view, this is a “maneuver” to “charge against the governors, mayors and the Supreme Court, and save the skin of Bolsonaro and his government,” which according to the opposition is “responsible” for the uncontrollability of the pandemic, the true gravity has been questioned by the president from the very beginning.

EFE

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