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According to the president said on Monday, R $ 739,598 was used, by means of a corporate card, with the three flights sent to the Asian country in February of this year. As the report on Sunday showed, classified expenses related to Bolsonaro totaled R $ 3.76 million this year, according to information from the Transparency Portal. The value represents an increase of 98% in relation to the average of the last five years in the same period.
“3 @fab_oficial planes, linked to the Presidency, went to China to collect Brazilians in Wuhan. In the operation, R $ 739,598.00 was spent on corporate cards. Contrary to what was reported, eliminating extraordinary expenses, our expenses remain for below the average of previous years. ” “the president posted on Twitter.
Contrary to what Bolsonaro says, by decreasing the amount he cited with flights to China, the R $ 3 million related to other confidential expenses still represents an increase of 59% in relation to the average of what Dilma Rousseff and Michel Temer spent. . , his predecessors in office.
Since Sunday, when the report was released, the president cited flights to China as a justification for the surge in sensible spending on corporate cards, but until then had not disclosed the value.
“What I can say about China is that yesterday (Sunday) the press, as always, excuse me there, the press always criticizes the corporate card,” the president said yesterday morning, in front of the Alvorada Palace, when a woman who answered asked him if the Asian country was hiding data on the coronavirus “Part of the Chinese operation, three FAB planes, because it was a military plane, were financed with my corporate card. I appeared using the card to celebrate. Lack of character and responsibility for that press there. “
The expenses with the operation that brought 34 Brazilians back to the country until then were kept confidential. The hashtag “MostraAFaturaBolsonaro” was on the list of most commented topics on Twitter this Monday.
Parliamentarians from different parties, from Kim Kataguiri (DEM-SP) to Jandira Feghali (PCdoB-RJ), accused Bolsonaro of revealing how he spent public money through the corporate card Vinicius Poit (Novo-SP) submitted a request for information to the Presidency of the republic.
Travels
In response to last week’s report, the Planalto Palace gave a different version of what Bolsonaro said was the main reason for the increase.
Without giving details, the press office of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, the body responsible for managing corporate cards, reported that most of this year’s expenses are related to presidential trips in the national territory and international trips. This year, the President was in India in January, participated in the inauguration of the President of Uruguay in early March, and in the same month, traveled with a delegation of 31 people to the United States.
The calculation that points to an expense of R $ 3.76 million only takes into account the amounts linked to the Special Secretariat for Administration, which is responsible for the expenses of the President and his family, official residences and other routine expenses – supplies. office of the presidential office, for example. When considering other organizations linked to the Presidency of the Republic, such as the Institutional Security Office (GSI) and the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin), the value jumps to R $ 7.55 million at the beginning of the year, an increase in 91% in relation to the average for the same period.
In the same response given last week, the General Secretariat even cited the increase in expenses with the operation in China, but without detailing which agency was responsible for the expenses. Questioned again yesterday, the Planalto Palace did not appear until the conclusion of this edition.
Secret
In December last year, the State revealed that the government ignored a decision of the Supreme Court (STF) and refuses to explain how it has used public money through corporate cards. The Presidency says that opening data and invoices could jeopardize the president’s safety.
Before being elected, Bolsonaro was a staunch critic of spending on corporate cards and, especially, of the secrecy of the statements. In 2008, in a speech in the House, still as a parliamentarian (at that time affiliated with the PP), he challenged then-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to “open expenses” with the card.
In 2018, during the transitional government, the group’s then coordinator and current Minister of Citizenship, Onyx Lorenzoni, even said that the Bolsonaro administration would end the means of payment. The idea, however, was never pursued. The information is from the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo.
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