President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) said this Friday (10), in a speech to world leaders during the Democracy Summit, that the fight against corruption in the country is a “permanent priority” and took the opportunity to criticize his predecessors, ignoring related scandals to your government.
“The fight against corruption is also a permanent priority. So much so that we are completing three years without a single denunciation against our government, contrary to what happened in previous years”, said the Brazilian leader at the event of the US government. The virtual summit, convened by President Joe Biden, aims to debate democracy and authoritarian threats around the world.
Although he has taken to the global forum the speech that Brazil has been without corruption cases for three years, Bolsonaro himself usually says that he has no way of knowing whether this type of crime occurs in his government and that he is not aware of everything that happens. passes through the 23 ministries.
The president also said that Brazil had adopted “the most ambitious and comprehensive anti-corruption plan in the country’s history” — on Thursday the government launched a mini-package on the subject at an event in BrasÃlia.
It is a project to regulate lobbying and two decrees: one to increase the transparency of the authorities’ public agenda and the other to guarantee protection to the civil servant who denounces irregularities.
From the point of view of transparency of public agendas, this is an uncommon habit in Planalto itself. The president’s agenda is not disclosed in full or with details about, for example, who was present. The realization of many meetings is discovered by posts on social networks.
Bolsonaro’s speeches also ignore scandals related to his government. Among them, the investigation of irregularities in the purchase of vaccines against Covid and the investigations that weigh on the president’s four children, such as the case of the cracks linked to senator Flávio Bolsonaro (Patriota-RJ).
Also at the Biden event on democracy, the president spoke about another topic dear to him: freedom of expression. “We are committed to ensuring freedom of thought, association and expression, including on the Internet, which is essential for the proper functioning of a healthy democracy,” he said. “We value the right of everyone to express their opinions and to be heard.”
Bolsonaro became the target of a new investigation in the STF (Federal Supreme Court) for having made a false relationship, during a live, between AIDS and vaccination against Covid. Therefore, he again criticized the Supreme. Minister Alexandre de Moraes is the rapporteur of the fake news inquiry, which targets allies of the president. In the chief executive’s reading, it is a question of “freedom of expression”.
Despite the discursive defense of freedom of expression, the Brazilian head of state has been accumulating episodes of attack on press freedom and the professional media since before taking office.
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