Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro assured this Monday that the Brazilian people “deserve to suffer” if they vote in the next presidential election in 2022 for former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has not yet confirmed his candidacy.
Bolsonaro’s statements to his followers who left Palacio de la Alvorada, along with an evangelical pastor and a maskless Catholic priest, came after last week the Federal Supreme Court upheld the annulment of the sentences passed against him, ex-leader of the Workers’ Party. PT), for which the Brazilian president expected to say that Lula is “already a candidate”.
“It was an eight to three, interpret as you like,” he asked, referring to the Supreme Court decision.
Likewise, with regard to the Lula administrations, he found that “the people are getting used to the benefits” of the social plans, while he has defended the “meritocracy”, despite admitting that it is “difficult to implement”.
Also regarding the 2022 elections, he has argued that he will have to choose a side he wants to join before April, as Alliance for Brazil is not ready yet, ‘Correio Braziliense’ gathers.
“In next year’s election, whoever will be elected will nominate two (judges) to the Supreme Court in the first quarter of 2023,” he added, noting that “if you are a man in my line, there will be four (judges). that will change things. “
Regarding the criticism he has received for his management of the pandemic in Brazil, the second most affected country in the world, Bolsonaro believes that while they accuse him of being ‘genocidal’, ‘the damage from quarantines’ is greater is, with ‘a generation without school, people dying of depression, economic bankruptcy. “