A minister from Bolsonaro said Brigitte Macron was …

The Minister of Economy of Brazil, Paulo Guedes, he revived the confrontation between this country and France and added another offense to the first French lady, Brigitte Macron. "It's really ugly," said the trusted manager of Jair Bolsonaro, in line with what the Brazilian president himself pointed out when his two Frenchmen, Emmanuel Macron, asked him about fires in the Amazon. Given the impact of his words, Guedes had to apologize.

Guedes referred to Brigitte Macron about a seminar on privatizations in the city of Fortaleza. There, he also evoked the cross between Bolsonaro, Michelle Bachelet. This week, the Chilean President and the current UN High Commissioner for Human Rights have denounced the "reduction of democratic space" in Brazil. The Brazilian president interrogated her, attacked her father killed by the dictatorship of Pinochet and justified the dictator Augusto Pinochet.

"I see progress [económicos] on several fronts, but (…) the problem is whether they insulted Bachelet, if they insulted the woman of [Emmanuel] Macron, if they called him ugly, "Guedes said to a crowd of businessmen and added: "The president said, and that's the truth." The woman is really ugly"After a break, the minister, trained at the University of Chicago, added with a smile:" There is no ugly woman: there is a woman seen from a bad angle. "

"The Minister's intention was to illustrate that the relevant and urgent issues for the country did not have the place they should have in the public debate." no intention to commit personal offenses ", he had to apologize a few hours later during a statement. impact caused by their claims.

Guedes' derogatory remarks about Macron's wife followed the line opened by Bolsonaro, when he commented on a meme in which one of his sympathizers was mocking Brigitte Macron's physique, comparing a photo in which she appears serious and contemptuous. , with an image of the first Brazilian lady, Michele Bolsonaro, smiling in front of the Brazilian president on the day of its inauguration. "Do you now understand why Macron attacks Bolsonaro?", Reads next to the photos, to which Bolsonaro replied: "Do not humiliate, man, ha ha." Macron called the comment "extraordinarily disrespectful".