The connections of the sertanejo Gusttavo Lima with politicians and in particular with the Bolsonaro government returned to the news this Wednesday (7/12) with the discovery that the artist’s millionaire fee for participating in a government campaign had been kept secret for 100 years by Jair Bolsonaro.
Lima participated as a poster boy in the Mega-Sena da Virada campaign in 2021.
According to the Transparency Portal, Caixa Econômica Federal has disbursed more than R$10 million in the campaign. However, the allocation and use of the funds were not specified. And now Bolsonaro is preventing it from coming to light, at least until the secrecy promised by elected president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is repealed.
Avowed supporter of Bolsonaro, the sertanejo singer has also campaigned for the politician in the presidential election.
In addition, he caused a lot of talk when he staged million-dollar shows paid for with public funds, without competition, by Bolsonarismo-aligned town halls, a situation that also involved other singers and almost gave birth to a “CPI del Sertanejo” . The parliamentary movement to launch an inquiry eventually lost momentum as the election campaign began.
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