Jair Bolsonaro dismissed the Minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, Gustavo Bebianno, who had been the subject of an investigation for irregular treatment of election funds

I have r Bolsonaro He put Monday the minister of the general secretariat of the presidency, Gustavo Bebianno, one of his trusted men and who was splashed for a case of election financing.

The Brazilian president announced Monday the first stage of the failure of his government after a week of intense negotiations between some ministers contain a crisis for alleged financial irregularities within the Liberal Social Party (PSL), to which he belongs Bolsonaro.

"President Jair Bolsonaro decided today to leave the post of Minister of the Secretary General of Gustavo Bebianno. The president is grateful for his dedication to the portfolio front and wishes him every success, "said the presidential spokesman in a brief message. Otavio do Rego Barrosat a press conference in Brasilia.

After the departure of Bebianno, the ministry of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, interlocutor of the president with the other powers, will be badumed by the general of the reserve. Floriano Peixoto.

The spokesman said that "the reason for the exoneration is the president's intimate forum", but this happens several weeks after a newspaper article Folha de Sao Paulo reveals that the PSL, of which Bebianno was president, I would have disappointed to submit at least one "ghost" nomination to the elections last October.

According to the newspaper, in one of these cases, the party of Bolsonaro provided 400 000 reais (about 106 000 dollars today) of public money to finance the expenses of a supposed "ghost" candidate to the federal deputation of the state of Pernambuco (northeast) who got only 274 votes in the elections.

At that time, Bebianno was the president of the formation, a position he left when he was appointed Minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency.

The scandal revealed two weeks ago created tensions within the government and led to Bolsonaro publicly deny his minister, who had claimed to have spoken with the president of the case during his hospitalization.

The case took on an even greater dimension after one of the president's sons, Councilor Carlos Bolsonaro, will post an audio on their social networks to record that their father did not speak to Bebianno.