Target of investigations for vaccination card fraud and sale of Saudi jewelry, former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) declared on Friday 19, that the Federal Police (PF) can again execute warrants against his homes. According to the former president, they want to brand him as “corrupt”: “They will try to cheat me”.
“Tomorrow the Federal Police could knock on my door for the fourth time, to ask for my vaccination card. I have not been vaccinated. Go there and take my passport. They will try more and more to make fun of me, to make fun of me, but they will not find anything because it does not exist,” Bolsonaro said in an electric trio with Senator Flávio Bolsonaro and the pre-candidate for mayor of Rio Alexandre Ramagem.
Amid the progress made in the investigation into the monitoring of opponents by the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin) during the Bolsonaro administration, Bolsonaro has once again invested in the narrative of persecution. According to the former head of the Executive, “despite the persecutions and accusations, it is worth not giving up on Brazil.”
“I could go to the US. I had a proposal to earn 30 thousand dollars,” he said.
This Thursday 18, Bolsonaro said that Ramagem “pays a high price for the audacity” of wanting to govern a city like Rio.
The reaffirmation of support for Ramagem comes a week after Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), declassified the audio of a meeting in which former president General Augusto Heleno (then head of the Institutional Security Office) and former chief Abin discussed a plan to cancel the “rachadinhas” investigation – an investigation that focused on Flávio Bolsonaro, son “01” of the former chief of the executive.
Since the case came to light, the former president has invested in the narrative of persecution. Yesterday was no different.
“When we talk about 2026, we have to go through 2024. All those who are by my side suffer persecution. They pay a high price for being by my side. You know how persecuted we are. They even put whales in front of me,” Bolsonaro told supporters at a rally in Tijuca, in the northern zone.
On Wednesday 17, Flávio Bolsonaro posted a video on social media in which his father announced public engagements in Rio with Ramagem this week. The endorsement recording puts an end to speculation about a possible change of candidate in the race for mayor of Rio in this year’s elections and is considered a victory for Flávio, the main coordinator of Ramagem’s campaign.
The senator is seen as the bridge between Ramagem and Bolsonaro and the main defender of the ally’s candidacy. As Estadão showed, the former president became irritated with Ramagem after the news that the Federal Police found the audio of the meeting, but that the PL intended to maintain Ramagem’s candidacy even as it continued its investigation into an alleged illegal espionage plan in Abin.
Bolsonaro says Haddad wants to tax PIX
The former president once again invested in his electoral speech, with references to the public security sectors, evangelicals and attacks on the PT. In both events in the capital Rio de Janeiro, Bolsonaro and his allies gave speeches against the legalization of abortion, the decriminalization of drugs and in favor of civic-military schools.
“The Northeast was supposed to be the best region in the country. The PT has been in the Northeast for 20 years. What is the best state in Brazil: Santa Catarina. The PT has never been there. Where there is the PT there is bad luck. The current mayor (Eduardo Paes) coexists with Lula and it will get worse,” he said.
The former head of the executive criticized the Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad (PT). According to Bolsonaro, he intends to “tax the Pix”.
“In our economic policy we serve everyone. Pix has become a reality. If it were this government, it would have denied it. Haddad not taxed Pix. After taxing blouses, he (Haddad) wants to tax Pix,” he said.
Source: Terra
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