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BRASÍLIA Y SÃO PAULO – The mayor, Rodrigo Maia (DEM-RJ), Ministers of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), governors, party leaders and president of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB), Felipe Santa Cruz, regretted the aggressions suffered by journalists who were defending the president Jair Bolsonaro This Sunday in Brasilia. STF Minister Carmen Lúcia defended press freedom. Maia, for her part, spoke on her social networks remembering the aggression suffered by the nurses when they met with Bolsonaro’s supporters in protest on May 1.
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“Yesterday the nurses were threatened. Today the journalists were attacked. Tomorrow anyone who opposes their worldview. It is up to democratic institutions to impose a legal order on this group that confuses politics with poignant terror,” wrote the president of the Chamber.
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Bolsonaro’s supporters attacked journalists during a demonstration in favor of the president and against Moro, Maia and the STF, in front of the Planalto Palace, in Brasilia. A photographic reporter from the state of São Paulo was shot down twice, kicked and hit in the stomach. A newspaper driver tripped. STF Minister Cármen Lúcia repudiated the attacks:
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– I regret the information that there was an assault on journalists on such a significant day for the press as today. It is unacceptable, inexplicable, that we still have citizens who do not understand that the role of the press professional is what guarantees that each of us is free. We are, therefore, when we speak of freedom of expression and of the press, in the field of liberties, without which there is no respect for dignity – said Cármen Lúcia.
“Democracy is plural,” says Carmen
In 1993, a decision of the United Nations General Assembly created World Press Freedom Day, celebrated on May 3. Cármen Lúcia participates in a debate on “Pandemic and the essential role of the press”, promoted by the Brazilian Institute of Public Law (IDP).
Cármen Lúcia said that when a journalist is attacked, “citizenship” is also:
– There is no dignity in the absence of freedom. And there is no way to exercise freedom without being informed about what is happening around us.
The Minister of STF He also said that “only those who do not want democracy want silence.”
– Who likes dictatorship likes silence. Democracy is plural, it is noisy. It brings noise that creates plurality. Everyone has the right to think freely and express their opinions freely, and the critical capacity of a society depends on the information provided by the press.
STF Minister Alexandre de Moares He also criticized attacks on journalists on Sunday in the federal capital.
“The attacks against journalists must be repudiated for the cowardice of the act and for the damage to Democracy and the Rule of Law, and cannot be tolerated by the Institutions and by Society,” the minister wrote on a social network.
The president of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB), Felipe Santa Cruz, published a note in which he also criticized the speech of President Jair Bolsonaro, where he declared that he had reached “the limit”, saying that he would no longer accept “interference” in his government.
“The limits that exist are those of the Constitution, and are valid for everyone, including and especially for the president. The only patience that has come to an end, legitimately and rightly, is the patience of society with a government official who neglects his obligations, incites chaos and disorder, in the midst of a health and economic crisis, “says the note signed by Santa Cruz.
Former Minister of Justice and Public Security Sergio Moro It also manifested itself through a social network.
“Democracy, freedoms, including speech and the press, the rule of law, integrity and tolerance go together and not separately,” Moro wrote.
Governors criticize Bolsonaro’s position
The governor of rio, Wilson Witzel, criticized the position of President Jair Bolsonaro to encourage the crowds again, despite the recommendations of the health authorities.
“We spend days and days appealing to people to stay home and take care of their health and the president continues to greet people in crowds. I don’t know where the president wants to go with this. But each life lost will be your responsibility. It is a bad example, “wrote the governor on a social network.
The Governor of São Paulo, João Doria, demanded that the Justice punish the aggressors and affirmed that they attack democracy and damage the rule of law.
“Ideological militiamen cowardly attack health professionals one day. They attack press professionals the next. They are criminals who attack democracy and undermine the rule of law. Justice needs to punish these criminals,” Doria wrote in a social network.
The governor of Maranhão, Flávio Dino, affirmed that the desire of the president to have a government “without interference” represents, in practice, a dictatorship.
“It is the essence of the functional tripartition of the State that the powers interfere with each other. In fact, Bolsonaro is afraid of Moro’s accusation and of being forced to show the coronavirus exam, ”the governor wrote, citing the investigations that are being made into the accusations that former justice minister Sergio Moro made against the president. Bolsonaro
The Governor of Ceará, Camilo Santana, declared that the country is living in “dark times”:
“Agglomerations stimulated by the President in the midst of a very serious pandemic. Journalists attacked on Press Freedom Day. Brazil lives in dark times. But this is the moment when we most need to be strong, defend life and fight for our democracy, ”the governor also wrote on a social network.
Party leaders also criticize the president
The leader of the PSB in the Chamber, Alessandro Molon (PSB-RJ) also used social media to criticize the president’s position this Sunday.
“Attacks on other powers, journalists, opponents, former allies, threats against everyone … With each new act, Bolsonaro shows that we are right: there is no other way but to eliminate it. Either that or it will destroy Brazilian democracy,” wrote the deputy.
The former Minister of Education and candidate for the presidency of the Republic by the PT, Fernando Haddad, also used a social network to question the presidential speech:
“Fascism lays its eggs: Bolsonaro, who breaks the constitution daily, says that ‘the constitution will be followed at any cost,'” Haddad wrote.
The PSDB National President, Bruno Araújo, condemned the President’s personal support for protests against democracy and attacks by Bolsonaro supporters against health professionals and the press.
“It is necessary to investigate and punish those who sponsor these true anti-democratic militias against Brazil,” wrote Araújo in a note issued on behalf of the PSDB.
