Political crisis Brazil: Bolsonaro expelled a minister of corruption

It takes 49 days as president of the most powerful country in South America, which he was hospitalized for 17 days: it was enough time for the first crisis of his government. I have r Bolsonaro has confirmed the dismissal of Gustavo Bebianno, Secretary General of the Presidency, which is at the same time the President of the ruling party, the Liberal Social Party, for a cause of corruption.

Will be replaced by retired general Floriano Peixoto Vieira Neto, 64, and the eighth military it will be part of the cabinet.

A few days ago, one of the Brazilian newspapers criticized by the president, Folha de Sao Paulo, revealed that Bebianno participated in a program of misappropriation of public funds during the 2018 election period, intended to fund applications from PSL women.

The aggravating factor is that Bebbiano was the coordinator of the Bolsonaro presidential campaign, whose speech is an embellishment with the fight against corruption.

With your departure, the PSL would only continue to lead a ministry, the Ministry of Tourism, with Marcelo Alvaro Antonio – although there are also suspicions about his participation in the case – and would be very much reduced to power against the military who participate in the cabinet.

The problem is that the Brazilian government now needs every PSL vote to get congressional support where it will present two key projects this week, as the group is the second most represented – behind the PT – in the lower house .

This is timely: throughout the election campaign, Bolsonaro has been involved in the fight against corruption and adjustment of public accounts. The time has come to bring these causes to fruition through reforms, taking advantage of their personal political capital and dispelling the concern over the first crisis of their government.

The Minister of Justice, Sergio Moro, will take a package of measures against crimeand on Wednesday, it will be the turn of the presentation to the Congress of the Netherlands. pension reform. Bolsonaro himself said that he would go to Parliament to introduce him and make official propaganda to promote him, with speeches on radio and television to explain planned changes in pensions.

The trade union centers have already announced protests against the project, which includes changing the age of retirement: 62 years minimum for women and 65 years for men.

The dissemination strategy includes posters with the slogan "New Forecasts", which emphasize the need for this reform "so that the rich and the poor have the same conditions".

In addition, the President confirmed today the intention of privatize 12 airports on March 15, said that this measure would attract about 945 million US dollars of investment in terminals sold at auction.