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Towards a (terribly) confessional. Jair Bolsonaro participated in a religious ceremony organized by the Evangelical Parliamentary Front in the Chamber of Deputies. This block, known as the Bible Bank, brings together members of Congress from various parties, usually from the right, and has about a hundred members, or nearly 20% of the members of the House of Representatives.

"You know how families have been attacked by the latest governments, you have been decisive in saving family values," said Bolsonaro.

"How many have tried to leave us aside by saying that the state is secular, if we are Christians, or that we plagiarize the dear Damares, we are terribly Christians," he said, quoting Minister Damares Alves, pastor in charge of women's, family and human rights portfolio.

During the service, which was also attended by a pastor, the participants celebrated the most touching sentences by extending their hands to the sky.

In Brazil, the President has the power to present to Congress the names of candidates to the Federal Supreme Court whenever a member of the same party retires or resigns.

Until December 31, 2021, at the end of the current term, two magistrates from the highest court will retire.

Referring to this question, he anticipated that "between the two quotas, I must indicate to the Federal Supreme Court that one of them will be a terribly evangelical judge".

The same promise was made last month when he blamed the Supreme Court justices for determining that homophobia was a crime equivalent to racism, sentenced to a term of imprisonment. .

Although he is a Catholic, the occupant of Plbadto Palace does not hide his differences with Pope Francisco, aggravated by the opinion of Bergoglio in favor of the defense of the Amazon, and his sympathy for the powerful neo-Pentecostal movement he benefited from in the elections last year. Through the preaching of thousands of pastors, the main Pentecostal currents, such as the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, guided their followers to the vote of the right-wing candidate against the "sinner" Fernando Haddad of the Workers' Party .

To thank this hard vote last month, he participated in the great march for Jesus which is held every year in Sao Paulo, being the first president to participate in this religious mobilization.

Unlike abortion, "gender ideology" and the criminalization of homophobia Jair Messias Bolsonaro was baptized by a pastor in the waters of the Jordan, Israel, in 2016.

Taking part in a religious ceremony held yesterday in Parliament, the retired captain has reached a new stage in the alliance whose international correlate is his approach to the Christian-Zionist movement, which sponsors both Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, representative of the Christian-Zionist lobby, was Trump's envoy to the inauguration ceremony of the Brazilian president last January and one of the architects of the summit Trump-Bolsonaro at the White House in March.

It was during his visit to Washington that Bolsonaro met with Pastor Pat Robertson, owner of Broadcast's Nework Christian and famous worldwide for his support of the anti-Crusade. communist Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.

Pat Robertson and his son Gordon asked God that Washington and Brasilia "get closer and closer" and expressed their intention to support Brazil in its "humanitarian aid" to Venezuela.

Bolsonaro, who aspires to have a media empire that responds organically to his project of re-election in 2021, yesterday announced his desire to meet soon Bishop Edir Macedo, owner of the multimedia disc and visit the Temple of Solomon, built in 2014, belonging to the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, which was honored yesterday at the age of 42 years.

The visit of Bolsonaro to the Legislative Assembly left two messages: one to the Bible Bank, supported by the pastors-dipu, and the other towards the Bancada de la Bala, whose members are mainly state and federal police, among whom would be supporters of paramilitary "militias".

The latter have promised a special regime, which puts them out of the draconian pension reform that began to be addressed this Wednesday at the plenary session of the lower house.

This is a project of the Minister of Economy Paulo Guedes, inspired by the pension reform of the dictator Augusto Pinochet, with whom he collaborated with the government in the late 70s.