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The Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro, He reiterated this Sunday before thousands of followers in Brasilia his speech against confinement, at a time when the number of coronavirus cases in the country skyrockets.
“The destruction of jobs by some governors is irresponsible and inadmissible. We will pay dearly in the future ”, declared the head of state in a broadcast of the demonstration live on Facebook.
In Brazil, confinement measures are the responsibility of state governors who impose them locally, more or less strictly.
Sunday’s demonstration in Brasilia brought together a larger crowd than in previous weeks, with many banners against Rodrigo Maia, the president of the Chamber of Deputies, and Sergio Moro, the former Justice Minister, who resigned last week with accusations with accusations of interference against Bolsonaro.
Some of those present called for “military intervention.”
But, unlike previous protestss, the far-right president, who was not wearing a mask, kept his distance from his followers, from the ramp of his official residence at the Alvorada Palace.
Instead of encouraging the crowd, the president settled for making a short speech on camera. He then went down the ramp with his nine-year-old daughter Laura to greet the protesters, but he stayed more than two meters from the crowd.
“The people are with us, and the army is on the side of the law, of order, of freedom and of democracy”, he claimed.
The Estado de S. Paulo newspaper, one of the most important in the country, said that a group of protesters pushed and kicked one of its photographers and his driver.
Brazil has registered nearly 100,000 cases of covid-19 and more than 6,700 deaths since the beginning of the epidemic in December in China.
In the last week, the number of daily deaths has exceeded 400 people.
Most experts consider that the peak of the pandemic is still far from being reached in that country of 210 million inhabitants the size of a continent.
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