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RIO E BRASÍLIA – After canceling a barbecue that he had announced for this Saturday, after the negative repercussion, the president Jair Bolsonaro He spent part of the afternoon riding a water bike on Lake Paranoá, in Brasilia. He rode the bicycle with a security guard on his back, both without a mask, which became mandatory in the Federal District. Brazil registers 10,627 deaths from Covid-19, 730 confirmed in the last 24 hours.
Negative impact: Bolsonaro cancels the barbecue at the Alvorada Palace
The tour has not been officially confirmed. The Alvorada Palace, the official residence of the President of the Republic, is bathed by Lake Paranoá and Bolsonaro left without being seen. However, images of Bolsonaro during the tour were posted on the Metropoles website.
In one of the videos, to which O GLOBO also had access, the president was recorded when approaching a speedboat. In greeting the President, people said they were from the aviation industry and that they had gone to the lake to “make their barbecue.”
– If we do not worry, Brazil will be in chaos in unemployment – Bolsonaro said, in the recording. – It is a neurosis, 70% will contract the virus, there is no way. It’s crazy, completed.
In other images, the president appears on a pier waving to a group of people. Most did not wear masks either.
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Previously, Bolsonaro published, on his social networks, an excerpt from a video in which he mocks supporters about the event and wrote that the barbecue he publicly announced was “false” and criticized Movimento Brasil Livre (MBL) for presenting a lawsuit to try to prevent the event from happening. “Some idiotic journalists criticized the FALSE barbecue, but MBL has outdone itself, has entered ACTION IN JUSTICE,” he wrote.
On the eve of the barbecue announced by the president for this Saturday, at the Alvorada Palace, guests were warned about the cancellation of the event, after the negative impact of the initiative amid the new coronavirus pandemic. By Friday night, the plan was for participants to arrive at the President’s official residence early in the morning, at 7:30 a.m., to play soccer on the field at the rear of the palace.
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Both the tour and the barbecue go against the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Health itself. The presidential press office said the President had a private agenda and therefore had no information to transmit.
Announcing the barbecue last Thursday, Bolsonaro said the event should have 30 guests, including ministers and officials. And that the participants would have to join a R $ 70 “cow” to help finance the meeting. The amount was confirmed to GLOBO by one of the guests.
In the face of criticism of the initiative, which was called “death barbecue” on social networks, since it is scheduled for the day that Brazil reached a total of more than 10,000 deaths due to Covid-19 -, close allies of the The president began acting behind the scenes to verify the existence of the event, which would have been a “provocation” by Bolsonaro.
This Saturday morning, the Chief Minister of the Government Secretariat, Luiz Eduardo Ramos, entered Alvorada on his motorcycle and left about 50 minutes later.
Arriving in Alvorada late on Friday afternoon, the president scoffed at the decision to barbecue on site and avoided answering questions if the event was not a bad example, due to the need for social isolation. He jokingly stated that 1,300 people were already confirmed.
