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Jair Bolsonaro is considered to have been a cow’s hand. Every relative, friend, or adviser has a story that shows how “Jair” is irritated by the waste and likes to save pennies. In the Franciscan campaign for the Presidency, traveling by car from one city to another, the former captain left some employees heartbroken when he decided that everyone would sleep in the van that night to save money at the hotel. On one occasion, during a breakfast in a bakery in the state of Rio, the advisers supported by the counter began to make their orders: drip, bread on the plate, bread and butter, one ordered an empanada. Until someone asked, “Do you have a jelly to use on bread?” Bolsonaro was outraged: “There, no, right?” And he decreed: “Everyone is going to eat the same thing. Send French bread and not butter.” It was an assistant’s turn to be outraged: “Bread without butter, Jair?” The boss’s response: “Wet the coffee, put it on!”
The newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo publishes today that spending on the corporate card of the Presidency of the Republic, which used to pay for the delicate expenses of President Jair Bolsonaro, doubled in the first four months of 2020. The comparison was made in relation to the average of the last five years Between January and April, the Presidency spent R $ 3.76 million on expenses, the nature of which will remain a mystery to Brazilians. In November 2019, the STF withdrew the article from the decree that the movement of the president’s corporate credit cards must be kept confidential. Planalto was notified, but did not change its procedure, alleging that it was supported by other legislation not modified by the Court. Therefore, it maintained the practice of not disclosing with what, where and when the president, a handful of advisers and relatives spend public money. The claim is the same as that of previous governments: disclosure of this data would jeopardize the security of the President.
In 2008, when he was a federal deputy, Bolsonaro went to the Chamber of Deputies to challenge the Lula government to reveal spending on the ministers’ corporate card; At the time, the press had shown that the payment method had even been used to buy pool tables. Throughout his campaign, Bolsonaro called for transparency and morality in public spending. The realization that, in power, he ignores the first principle and does not mind showing that he observes the second is just another item on the list of disappointments that infringes his followers.
The season of bread without butter was in the campaign.
But Bolsonaro would do well to demonstrate that he did not launch the “jelly”.
