“Are we still a free country? I ask you this thinking about what happened with the businessmen, the eight businessmen, with two of them I have contact, with Luciano Hang and (Meyer Joseph) Nigri”, raised the president this Wednesday in the state of Minas Gerais. Bolsonaro was referring to the businessmen whose bank accounts were blocked, in addition to having the secrecy of their telephones removed, among other measures ordered by the STF on Tuesday.
The police investigations were carried out after a journalistic investigation revealed that in the WhatsApp group “Businessmen and Politics” its members defended a “coup” in case the opponent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva expires in the elections of October 2 or the ballot of the 30 of the same month.
One of the members of that group, Luciano Hang, He is already being investigated by the STF due to his alleged complicity with the “anti-democratic” acts of 2020 and 2021 in which a military intervention and the closure of the Court were defended. During his speech in Minas Gerais, Bolsonaro, of the Liberal Party (PL), affirmed that his rival Lula da Silva, of the Workers’ Party (PT, left), if elected, will lead Brazil to a political system similar to the one that prevails in Venezuela.
The ex-military Bolsonaro said, before faithful evangelicals from Minas Gerais, that he will defend freedom with all his might and will fight against abortion and drugs. And he highlighted the situation of the economy after the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) reported today that inflation fell 0.73% in the report that contemplates the evolution of prices until August 15.
According to analysts, it is practically certain that there will be deflation when the entire month of August is calculated. If so, August will be the second consecutive month with low prices, since in July a deflation of 0.68% was registered, according to the IBGE.
police operation
Bolsonaro referred again today to the operation against the official businessmen saying that they did not receive the backing of the “little Democratic Charge group.” He was referring to the intellectuals, jurists and businessmen who signed a manifesto released two weeks ago in defense of the institutions and warning of the risk of a coup.
After speaking before priests and taking a motorcycle tour, Bolsonaro was preparing to lead another proselytizing act scheduled for Wednesday night in the center of Belo Horizonte, the capital of Minas Gerais, the state with the second electoral college in the country.
In the meantime, in Brasilia the repercussions of the operation of the Federal Police (PF) continued, ordered by the STF against the businessmen who supposedly participated in the coup. About, The Minister of Justice and Public Security, Anderson Gomes, stated that “The police entering people’s homes, Justice blocking their accounts and breaking their banking secrecy because they were issuing opinions in a closed WhatsApp group. This borders on the totalitarianism”.
The measure of the STF had been questioned on Tuesday by the Attorney General of the Republic, Augusto Aras. Aras met with the Minister of Defense, General Paulo Sergio de Oliveira, and the head of the Army, Marco Antonio Freire, the head of the Navy, Almir Garnier, and the head of the Aeronautics, Almeida Baptista Junior.
The meeting was not on the authorities’ agenda and was held on Wednesday morning at the Defense Ministry building in Brasilia, the press reported. Sources linked to the participants or gave details about the topics discussed during the meeting in which they discussed with the “Institutions”, reported the channel CNN Brasil.
According to that medium, this event at the Ministry of Defense may be linked to the climate of political “tension” and “discontent” in the government after the raids on businessmen’s offices.
Source: Ambito
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