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It is not usual for a president to be called a liar as often as Jair Bolsonaro was during these almost two years in office. The respectability of the position, the institutional etiquette, all this aura made politicians and the press have a certain modesty to use the adjective.
However, there were so many Bolsonaro inventions that Brazil got used to seeing the most powerful man in the Republic treated as the president of the Chamber of Deputies did today. Rodrigo Maia said that the occupant of the Planalto Palace is a liar.
Certainly there will be a reaction in the social networks of the robotic and flesh and blood bolsonaristas, the military who support him will also be scandalized, the political allies will react.
But, in addition to the game of the scene, how to qualify certain fables created by Bolsonaro, if it were not for the word that the dictionary recommends: lying?
In the case of now, the president tries to justify before his voters the failure to fulfill the promise to deliver the 13th salary of Bolsa Família, accusing the mayor of not guiding the vote of the Provisional Measure in this regard.
Try to remove the responsibility of throwing him in the lap of the Legislature. It omits that the government itself articulated in the Chamber that the MP was not voted, to avoid the cost of R $ 8 billion to the public coffers.
How would Bolsonaro supporters rate this deception?
This is just the latest in a vast collection of imaginary truths from the president.
Since taking office, he said there was fraud in the 2018 elections, said the left wants to decriminalize pedophilia, insisted that he did not comment on the Federal Police at the famous ministerial meeting in April, assumed that the fires in the Amazons were caused by indigenous people. Caboclos, insisting that he had never referred to the coronavirus pandemic as “little flu”, spread that anti-covid masks can be harmful to health by retaining CO2.
All the elements of this small sample of inventions have been refuted. Not to mention the fake news published in the campaign.
In his dealings with Congress, he uses the tactic of publicizing well-accepted initiatives while working behind the scenes to have them overthrown. When asked by his supporters, the president takes refuge in his parallel reality and holds deputies and senators responsible.
This double game is also a trap in which even the experienced Centrão can suffer losses.
Now, the mayor responds to Bolsonaro’s attack by recalling what the press had already reported: the government itself worked to cancel Bolsa Família’s thirteenth salary in 2020.
In reaction to Bolsonaro’s irresponsible verbiage, Maia raised the issue. It’s a checkmate.
The base of government in the Chamber was the pineapple. Now you have the obligation to work to approve the project. If you don’t, you will bear the brunt of such an unpopular decision.
If he does not support the validation of the benefit, the president will once again be treated with the adjective that no occupant of the Planalto Palace should get used to: a liar.
