Bolsonaro says the Brazilian people deserve to suffer …

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, whose government will begin to be investigated by the Senate for its negligent performance in the pandemicHe said on Monday that “the people deserve to suffer” if they vote for Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the 2022 presidential elections.

Bolsonaro again criticized mayors who ordered quarantines to prevent hospital collapse due to coronavirus, predicting that this month he will join a new political party and the fastest way to change the state of things is a “dictatorship”, which clarified that. it will not impose.

“For God’s sake, people who casually vote for Lula deserve to suffer, ”Bolsonaro told his followers, by annulling by eight to three votes the decision of the members of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) which annulled the sentences handed down against the former president (2003-2010) and historical landmark of the left, which also revoked the ban on running for office.

“It was an eight against three, interpret it what you want,” said Bolsonaro, without wearing a mask next to an evangelist pastor and a Catholic priest, at the door of the Alvorada Palace, the presidential residence.

The far-right president said that “the people are getting used to the benefits” by attacking the social plans of the governments of Lula’s Workers’ Party, and defended “meritocracy”, while specifying that it is “difficult to apply.”

Bolsonaro was elected in 2018 when Lula was jailed as part of Operation Lava Jato for a conviction pronounced by the then judge Sérgio Moro, then Minister of Justice of Bolsonaro. Chamber II of the Supreme Court ruled that Moro’s performance was partial.

Bolsonaro criticized the mayor of Belo Horizonte, Alexandre Kalil, for being “reelected despite the defense of quarantine” with more than 80% of the vote last year.

“They call me genocidal, but look for the damage of quarantines, a generation without school, people who are dying of depression, of economic bankruptcy,” he said.

In this context, he said he hoped to be re-elected in 2022 with “the verifiable vote to be able to truly change Brazil”, stoking the ghosts of the far right in the face of never-before-seen problems in the electronic ballot boxes that operate in the United States. Brazil since 1998.

Bolsonaro said the next president from 2023 will be able to appoint two members of the highest court.