I am a Bolsonar technical staff, says Queiroga

The Minister of Health, Marcelo Queiroga, avoided answering this Wednesday (2) whether he will be a candidate this year, but stated that he is a “bolsonarista technical staff” and that he will fulfill the role that President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) has designated in the 2022 lawsuit.

In an interview with the press before the start of the legislative year, he said that he “wants to be recognized as the minister who ended the Covid-19 pandemic” and did not answer whether he will stay in government until the end of the year or if he will leave to run as a candidate.

“I have been a doctor for more than 30 years, I have never militated in party politics, but today I am a technical staff, as you like to call it, a bolsonarista. I will work here for my president Jair Messias Bolsonaro,” he said.

Queiroga has been tipped to run for governor or senator for Paraíba, his home state.

In the government and in Congress, however, there is resistance to the idea of ​​the Executive making another change in the Ministry of Health in the midst of the pandemic. The minister, in turn, has aligned himself with Bolsonaro’s guidelines.

In January, for example, while the Chief Executive criticized the vaccination of people aged 5 to 11 years approved by Anvisa, he visited in Lençóis Paulista (SP) a child who had a cardiac arrest after receiving the immunization against Covid-19.

Soon after, however, the Ministry of Health and the São Paulo Health Department ruled out the relationship between the vaccine and the child’s health problem.

This Wednesday, Queiroga also avoided answering whether the ministry plans to distribute vaccines so that all Brazilians take the fourth dose of the immunizer against Covid-19.

“I have already taken several doses of the flu vaccine. We do not know, in the long term, how the vaccination will be in relation to Covid-19. The ministry has a secretariat that analyzes this with a technical group”, he said.