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Amid pressure from Congress for his resignation, Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo stretched the rope. He opened a new crisis with the Legislative by insinuating that the articulation to remove him from the command of the Foreign Ministry is not related to vaccines, but to the interests of the Chinese company Huawei, under threat of being excluded from the dispute over the implantation. of 5G technology in Brazil.
Mentioned by Araújo in publications on social networks, Senator Kátia Abreu (PP-TO), president of the Senate Foreign Relations Commission, described the chancellor as “marginal.”
“Brazil can no longer have the face of a marginalized before the world,” said Kátia. “Someone who insists on living outside of good diplomacy, outside the truth of the facts, off the scale and out of respect for the institutions. Someone who attacks the Foreign Relations Committee and the Federal Senate for free and unnecessarily “.
In the middle of Sunday, Araújo took to social networks to comment on the lunch he had with Kátia Abreu, on March 4. He wrote that the conversation was “polite.” And he added: “Little or nothing spoke of vaccines. At the end, at the table, he said: ‘Minister, if you make a gesture in relation to 5G, you will be the king of the Senate.” I made no gesture. “
After insinuating that the senator was at the service of the lobby of the Chinese company, Araújo pointed out in a second post: “I rejected the suggestion even because the 5G issue depends on the Ministry of Communications and the President of the Republic, who is responsible for the final decision on the matter. “
“It is a violence to add three hours of institutional meeting to a tweet that lacks the truth,” replied Kátia Abreu. “In an institutional meeting, all the content is public.”
The senator said that she defended with the chancellor the second thesis that “the bidding process cannot include vetoes or political restrictions.” In the case of the 5G auction, he said, “the criteria of price and quality must prevail.” The senator recalls that she presented her point of view on the issue in an article entitled “O Céu é o Limite”, published in the March 21 issue of Folha.
Kátia said she warned Araújo about the “losses that a China veto on the 5G issue could cause to our exports, especially to agribusiness, which has been saving the country for decades.” He stated that he also spoke about the environment. He told Araújo that “the issue of deforestation in the Amazon must be fully explained to the world, to avoid further commercial damage to Brazil.”
Araújo targeted Kátia and hit the Legislature. The president of the Senate and the National Congress, Rodrigo Pacheco (DEM-MG) took to social networks. “The attempt by Minister Ernesto Araújo to disqualify the competent senator Kátia Abreu affects the entire Federal Senate. It is precisely at a time that we seek to unite, add and pacify the relations between the powers, ”wrote Pacheco. “This constant collapse is a disservice to the country.”
The national president of the PP, Senator Ciro Nogueira took to social networks to regret that Araújo was spraying gasoline on a fire that he should help put out: “At a time when there is a great effort for peace and understanding, I am very sorry that The person responsible for our diplomacy will create one more political dispute for the institutions, “wrote Nogueira.” Brazil and the Brazilian people do not deserve it.
Without words, Kátia Abreu defended the chancellor’s resignation: “We must free Brazilian diplomacy from its marginal deviation.” For the senator, if a chancellor acts in this marginal way with the president of the Foreign Relations Commission of the Senate of the Republic of his own country, with an explicit bellicose compulsion, this definitely proves that he is outside any possibility of leader of Brazilian diplomacy “.
The former mayor, Rodrigo Maia (DEM-RJ) sympathized with Kátia Abreu. And the preaching echoed Araújo’s departure: “In fact, this minister should have already left. He is irresponsible.”
This week, pressure will mount for Bolsonaro to fire the foreign minister. The chorus includes the voices of Congressman Arthur Lira and Senator Rodrigo Pacheco, presidents of the House and Senate.
The worsening of the pandemic dragged Araújo to the center of the health crisis. Much of the legislature blames the Bolsonaro government for the vaccine shortage. Pressured from the center, the president had to dismiss General Eduardo Pazuello, replaced in the Ministry of Health by cardiologist Marcelo Queiroga. Now Bolsonaro is under pressure to get rid of the foreign minister.
The conviction spread that Araújo’s diplomacy has feet of clay. With the rhetoric poisoned by Bolsonaro’s ideology and idiosyncrasy, Araújo produced frictions that made it difficult to obtain vaccines.
The foreign minister was upset, for example, with China, a supplier of vaccines and the input for the production of the only immunizers available to Brazilians: CoronaVac, supplied by Butantan, and that of Oxford, distributed by Fiocruz.
Brazil also aspires to obtain a surplus of vaccines that the United States has bought and should not use. Supporters of Araújo’s resignation claim that the Brazilian foreign minister’s devotion to Donald Trump does not believe him to speak to the Joe Biden administration. Last week, while trying to explain himself in a Senate session, Araújo heard advice from several senators that he was resigning.
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