Brazil: record of covid Bolsonaro rejects – Latin America – International

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro complained on Monday to a senator with whom he had a telephone conversation about a research related to the covid-19 pandemic that the legislator recorded and disclosed on his social networks.

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“I was recorded in a telephone conversation. How far did I get to 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 sound was Senator Jorge Kajuru, from the official basis and that, in that conversation, he tried to justify his support for the opening of a parliamentary investigation into the Government’s management of the coronavirus pandemic.

In the sound you hear Bolsonaro protested that the investigation was limited to the actions of the federal government and do not include governors and mayors, whom you accuse of diverting resources from the Executive to combat the pandemic, which has already killed more than 353,000 people in the country.

(In addition: he accuses a hospital employee of abusing an intensive care patient)

Bolsonaro even urges Senator Kajuru to act so that the scope of the investigation is extended, because “otherwise they will only be affected“His government and some of his collaborators, including the general Eduardo Pazuello, former Minister of Health and already being investigated by the courts for managing his pandemic.

The President also complained, as he had already made public, that the Senate was not complying with the various requests for the dismissal he received against four of the 11 members of the Supreme Court, which reaffirmed the power of governors and mayors to decide on measures to combat covid-19, which Bolsonaro rejects.

Even when the President protested the recording and subsequent disclosure of that conversation, Senator Kajuru assured that he warned him that he would record and disseminate it on his social networks. “I warned him and he replied ‘everything is fine, everything I said is said,'” the senator said. According to the opposition, the conversation reveals that
Bolsonaro attempts to “interfere” with both the Senate and the Supreme Court, which has been described as “scandalous” by the deputy and president of the Workers’ Party (PT), Gleisi Hoffmann.

(Also: Brazil records over 4,000 deaths caused by covid in 24 hours)

In his view, it is a “maneuver” to “charge against governors, mayors and the Supreme Court and save the skin of Bolsonaro and his government,” which according to the opposition He is “responsible” for the lack of control over the pandemic, the true severity of which has been questioned by the president from the beginning.

EFE

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