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Whoever spoke to Pastor Silas Malafaia last night about the appointment of Judge Kássio Nunes to the Federal Supreme Court was surprised by the serenity of the religious. After all, Jair Bolsonaro had not chosen the name “terribly evangelical” for the Celso de Mello vacancy, as he had promised.
Malafaia explained that the president himself warned 15 days before the evangelical nominee will succeed Marco Aurélio Mello, who will retire next year. About Kássio Nunes, the pastor had little to say: “I can’t pass judgment, because I don’t know him.”
Less than 24 hours later, Malafaia’s position on Nunes changed radically. He first posted a tweet in which he complained that Bolsonaro’s election is not right-wing. Recently, she posted a video with harsher criticism.
“It is a shameful absurdity that it is President Bolsonaro’s first nomination for STF minister,” he says. “How are you going to nominate a guy for the Supreme Court appointed by Dilma, a friend of the Armed Forces, with socialist positions, who I am receiving here has more than 30 representations against him in the CNJ?”
Exalted, as always, Malafaia continues: “President, this is a shame! He would have to be like Donald Trump. He does not have to be evangelical, but far right (sic). It is a general disappointment.”
The pastor says that, with this election, Bolsonaro serves Centrão, PT, on the left, Senator Ciro Nogueira (PP-PI), the corrupt and those who are against Lava Jato.
What made Malafaia go from neutrality to rejection of the name indicated by the president? “Yesterday I did not know anything about him. After I began to see the information of who the guy is, where he comes from, who he indicated, I made my judgment,” he explained to the column. “I am an ally of Bolsonaro, but I am not alienated.”
In practice, Malafaia expresses the discontent of an important support group for the president, the evangelicals, which joins the Bolsonaristas of social networks in rejecting the name of Kássio Nunes.
It was the growth of the movement of critics of the one chosen by Bolsonaro for the STF that led people close to the president to advise him to immediately make the name of Nunes official for the Celso de Mello vacancy. They feared that attrition would push back the president.
