A minister from Bolsonaro dances on a tightrope …

From Brasilia

In just one month and fourteen days at the head of Plbadto Palace, Jair Bolsonaro is already accumulating two scandals that have upset his environment. The most recent hit Minister Gustavo Bebbiano, suspected of embezzling funds in 2018 while he was one of the leaders of the Social Liberal Party (PSL) campaign, whose candidate for the presidency was the retired captain of the army.

"A soldier is not hit at the nape of the neck," the beleaguered secretary-general of the Bebbiano presidency told a group of people close to him, G1 portal announced Thursday at the announcement of the fall imminent of his fall.

The suspicions about the perpetrator stem from a series of articles published in the Folha newspaper in San Pablo, the latest of which appeared yesterday, revealing the embezzlement of public funds intended to finance the candidacy of women of the PSL, establishes the law.

In 2018, Bebbiano was the owner and responsible for the finances of a group was presented as a spartan morality guided by the "mission" (recurrent expression) aimed at eliminating the corruption attributed to the Workers Party. Marketing the new ultra-right.

As more and more information about Bolsonaro's PSL and its once trusted Bebbiano comes to light, the party is revealed as a group with suspicions of corruption. Two months ago, documents from a financial control body revealed that Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, also of the PSL and son of the president, was heading a supposed criminal organization while he was deputy in Rio de Janeiro. Janeiro. The group raised illegal funds in the Legislative Assembly in Rio de Janeiro, where Flavio Bolsonaro's senior advisers were linked to paramilitary "militias". The case has tarnished the reputation of Flavio, one of the members of the "Bolsonaro clan", who was examined without enthusiasm by the public prosecutor and protected by a Federal Supreme Court judge.

Now, the scandal over Bebbiano has not only worried the government, but has also created a new divide between the factions. It turns out that the minister does not enjoy the sympathy of the "clan", especially Carlos Bolsonaro, another of the presidential sons whom his father affectionately nicknamed "pitbull". Especially to be a beast writing fake news as he had done during the campaign last year.

Clashes between factions of the new regime are commonplace and begin to liquefy the power of the head of state, whose health status seems weak.

Yesterday, sixteen days after being subjected to a new operation, he remained at the official residence, the Palacio de Alvorada, while the crisis surrounding the direction of Bebbiano was being lobbied at the palace of Plbadto, seat of government.

The clinical picture of the president is a news since September 6, when he was stabbed during an act of proselytizing. Because of his serious injuries, he was about to lose his life, according to his doctors, and the patient himself repeated it this week. Since the presidency took office, generally opaque information about his health has given rise to rumors that have never been confirmed. The latter appeared after his recent operation which lasted seven hours and not three as planned. And of his hospitalization of seventeen days, six more than advertised. Last week, Folha announced that medical sources were opposed to official statements. On Wednesday morning, journalist Eliane Cantanhede of the conservative newspaper Estado de Sao Paulo reported on the radio that Bolsonaro had undergone chemotherapy, an article published yesterday in this newspaper citing its author. Cantanhede, who is also a columnist for Globo News, is known to have access to high-ranking military and government sources. About twelve hours after the report on chemotherapy, the reporter denied this information on Twitter.

As he continued to convalesce in the official residence, the President received Generals Augusto Heleno, Minister of the Cabinet of Institutional Security, and Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz, Government Portfolio Manager. All indications are that the Bebbiano scandal was dealt with at the meeting.

Heleno and Cruz are the spokespersons of the military wing of the new power structure set up since 1 January. The army seems to reject the fall of Bebbiano as it would reinforce the influence of Carlos Bolsonaro and, subsequently, the weight of the family clan. Vice President General Hamilton Mourao said he supports a "diplomatic" solution to ensure continuity in the position of the minister suspected of illegal manipulation.

Along with the rumors about Bolsonaro's state of health, which for the moment are nothing more than that, others have embarked on a military escalation to remain in the presidential chair. This is why Bolsonaro avoided as much as possible that Mourao held his acting position during his internment. A few days ago, the patient telephoned the Vice President of Einstein Hospital in São Paulo and, jokingly or not, he said "you want to kill me".