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President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday (14) that businessmen must “play hard” with the São Paulo governor, João Doria, to avoid an eventual “confinement” in the state. Bolsonaro used the term “war” to refer to the political dispute.
“A man is deciding the future of São Paulo. He is deciding the future of the Brazilian economy. [empresários]With all due respect, you must call the Governor and play hard, play hard, because the problem is serious. It is war, “said the president.
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Bolsonaro made the statement during a videoconference with businessmen and the president of the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (Fiesp), Paulo Skaf. The virtual meeting discussed the need to revive the economy amid the pandemic of the new coronavirus.
At the meeting, Bolsonaro said that, if it were up to him, Brazil would adopt vertical isolation and follow the example of Sweden, a Nordic country that has already admitted errors in its strategy to face Covid-19.
Second exclusive survey of G1 With the state health departments, until this Thursday, there were 13,555 deaths caused by Covid-19 and 196,375 confirmed cases of the disease in Brazil.
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Throughout the conversation, the president again criticized the social isolation measures adopted by the governors as a way to try to reduce the speed of contagion of the new coronavirus. For the president, a “total blackout” in São Paulo is “unimaginable”.
The government’s Communication Secretary, Fábio Wajngarten, spoke in the same direction. According to him, the federal government wants “the opposite” of what the São Paulo government indicates.
Wajngarten called on employers to put pressure on governors to resume economic activities. The secretary also affirmed that the Presidency of the Republic is on the side of the businessmen.
“Then put pressure on the governors, put pressure on the governments to whom you have the right. The Presidency of the Republic is with you. President Bolsonaro works for you. The government works for you, the Presidency, here in Brasilia. We have a lone voice here Paulo [Skaf], take this please, “Wajngarten said.
At the end of last week, the Governor of São Paulo extended the isolation measures until the next 31. After Bolsonaro’s speech this Thursday, Doria said in a note that, “once again”, the President of the Republic “loses the opportunity to defend the health and life of Brazilians ”
Doria said that “São Paulo is fighting to protect lives.” The president, according to him, chooses “to hold demonstrations, ride a jet ski, take trains and barbecue,” while “thousands of Brazilians die every day.”
“Wake up to the reality of President Bolsonaro. Get out of the hate bubble and start being a leader if you can, ”said Doria.
In the same videoconference, Bolsonaro, without mentioning the name of the mayor, Rodrigo Maia (DEM-RJ), criticized the delivery of the report of provisional measure 936 to deputy Orlando Silva (PCdoB-SP). The text eased employment contracts in the pandemic.
“Look, if I can, one thing: it is not an explosion, it is a reality. Delivering the flexibilization contract to the PCdoB is not solving. So there are people who are not from the government, they are inside another Chamber, who does not want to resolve the issue “, said.
“It looks like he made a deal with the left. And you can’t deal with the left, we already know which line is on the left. It is a union line, it is a line that is not really focused on development, “he added.
Bolsonaro also included criticism of the processing of MP 910, which deals with the regularization of land tenure and will lose validity due to the lack of agreement in the vote. The text is in plenary in the House, but the leaders have already reached an agreement to send a bill with a similar content, instead of advancing the MP sent by the government.
“It is absurd, absurd. Now, according to who the command of the House gives to the rapporteur, he already indicates that he does not want to solve anything. It seems that he wants to sink the economy, screw the government, perhaps take a political advantage ahead. who? “says Bolsonaro.
Guedes and the veto on readjustments
During the videoconference, the Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes, defended again the sanction of the project of economic aid to the states and municipalities, and the veto to the possibility of salary adjustments to categories of officials.
Since the passage of the text in Congress last week, Bolsonaro has been saying he will heed Guedes’ suggestions. Until this Thursday, however, the sanction had not yet been published.
“The president is willing to do the veto, now, is he going to do the veto, will it have the political cost for the governors to take the resources and the Congress to override the veto? Instead of handing over the health money, it becomes the money to increase the civil service. This is morally wrong, this is technically absurd, it is fiscal suicide, “he said.
Guedes asked for the support of businessmen, “who have always financed electoral campaigns,” to seek parliamentarians.
“We need your support, who have always financed electoral campaigns, who have access to all parliamentarians, who have intimacy with the mayor and the president of the Senate, have access. Work that access to support us. It is important that the money from health comes to health, that’s why the president is considering the veto, “he said.
At the end of the conversation, Guedes made an addition asking businessmen to “clarify” to parliamentarians about the importance of government action. The minister said that he believed in democracy and considered that it was “bad reading” to say that the government is putting pressure on other powers.
“We defend it with some enthusiasm and sometimes there is a misreading of it. “Ah, they want to press this, press that.” It’s nothing like that. We believe in Congress, we believe it will work in the end, “said Guedes.
