Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday that the Brazilian people “deserve to suffer” if in the next presidential election in 2022 they vote for former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has not yet confirmed his candidacy.
Bolsonaro’s statements to his followers leaving the Alvorada Palace, along with an evangelical pastor and a masked Catholic priest, come after the Federal Supreme Court last week upheld the sentencing of his former Labor Party (PT) leader. in front of which the Brazilian president anticipated that Lula “is already a candidate”.
“It was an eight or three, interpret as you wish,” he asked, referring to the Supreme Court’s decision.
Likewise, referring to the Lula administrations, he considered that “people get used to the benefits” of social plans, while defending “meritocracy”, despite admitting that it is “difficult to apply”.
Also regarding the 2022 elections, he said that he will have to choose a party with which to run before April, because the Alliance for Brazil is not ready, collects “Correio Braziliense”.
“In next year’s election, whoever is elected appoints two (judges) for the Supreme Court in the first quarter of 2023,” he added, insisting that “if you are a guy in my line, there will be four (judges) who will will change. “
Regarding the criticism he received for managing the pandemic in Brazil, the second most affected country in the world, Bolsonaro considered that, although he accused him of “genocide”, the “quarantine damage” was greater, with “a generation without school, people die of depression, economic bankruptcy “.