Brazil: Leaked recording about the covid that Bolsonaro rejects – Latin America – International

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro complained Monday about a senator with whom he had a phone conversation about one research related to the Covid-19 pandemic which the legislator has registered and made public on its social networks.

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‘I was included in a telephone conversation. How far are we in Brazil? ‘ the president protested in front of a group of followers outside his official residence in Brasilia.

The author of the recording and who released the audio was Senator Jorge Kajuru, from the official base and who in that conversation tried to justify its support for opening a parliamentary investigation into the government’s management of the coronavirus pandemic.

You can hear in the audio Bolsonaro protests that this investigation is limited to the actions of the federal government and excluding governors and mayors, who accuse you of diverting resources from the executive to combat the pandemic, which has already killed more than 353,000 people in the country.

(In addition, they accuse a hospital worker of abusing a patient who was in the ICU)

Bolsonaro is even asking Senator Kajuru to act so that the scope of the investigation is expanded because “otherwise they are only affected‘his government and some of his associates, among whom he calls general Eduardo Pazuello, former Health Minister and has already been investigated by the courts for his management of the pandemic.

The president also complained, as he has already publicly, that the Senate is not following up on several requests he has been fired against four of the eleven members of the Supreme Court, which has reaffirmed the power of governors and mayors to decide on measures to combat Covid-19, which Bolsonaro rejects.

Even as the president protested the recording and subsequent disclosure of that conversation, Senator Kajuru assured him that he had warned him that he would register it and distribute it on his social networks“I warned him and he replied,” Everything is all right, everything I said has been said, “said the senator. According to the opposition, the conversation shows that
Bolsonaro attempts to ‘interfere’ with both the Senate and the Supreme Court, which has been described as ‘outrageous’ by the Deputy and Chairman of the Workers’ Party (PT), Gleisi Hoffmann.

(Also: Brazil records more than 4,000 deaths from covid in 24 hours)

He says it is a “maneuver” to “impeach the governors, mayors and the Supreme Court and save the skin of Bolsonaro and his government,” which the opposition said. It is “responsible” for the lack of control over the pandemic, the true severity of which has been questioned by the president from the start.

EFE

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