Tensions continue in Brazil: Supreme Court orders investigation of Jair Bolsonaro, who has sealed an alliance with the bloc that dominates Parliament

The magistrate Alexandre de Moraes, of Supreme Court of Brazil, included this Wednesday the president I have r Bolsonaro among those investigated a process of spreading fake news that undermines democracy.

The court itself reported on the magistrate’s decision, which responded to a request made by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) grounded in the discrediting campaign that the far-right leader has unleashed against the electronic ballot boxes used in the elections held in Brazil for more than two decades.

The investigation in which Bolsonaro was included began in 2019 limited to the distribution of fake news via the Internet, but two months ago he began to focus on the possible existence of those who have been classified as groups “undemocratic digital“Mainly from the extreme right led by the sovereign.

Meanwhile, the Brazilian president took the senator’s oath on Wednesday. Ciro Nogueira as Minister of the Presidency, the most important post in government, and He thus seals his new alliance with the moderate right which controls Parliament.

“The arrival of Ciro Nogueira in government is a demonstration that we want to deepen our relations with Congress“, since” The executive and the legislature must be a single power “, declared the leader of the extreme right, until now rejected by many of these more moderate forces represented by the new minister.

Nogueira, in turn, admitted that he held the most influential position in government at a time when “difficulties, radicalization and so many criticisms“And when” the world is difficult, the economy, reality, the people, Brazil and politics is difficult ”.

In a distant message from radicalism that usually guides Bolsonaro himself, Nogueira said that “there is no vocabulary for left and right“, other “the problems facing Brazil“And a resolution for the good of all of society.

He also underlined that one of the missions of the government is now “lead the country to elections“Scheduled for October 2022 and do it”correctly“, Without any allusion to the doubts that Bolsonaro himself sowed around the electronic voting system available to the country, that according to the sovereign encourages fraud, although he has never presented evidence to confirm this statement.

Nogueira replaces the reserve general at the post Luiz Eduardo Ramos, who occupied the Secretariat of the Presidency in place of Onyx Lorenzoni, which in turn took over the Ministry of Labor, which had disappeared and Bolsonaro decided to reinstate in the middle of this new reform of the cabinet.

From his new position, Nogueira will control all the springs of power, since his position He is a kind of chief of staff who has a direct influence on the rest of the ministries.

Nogueira chairs the Progressive Party (PP), one of the most influential forces of the so-called “centron”, A diverse group of formations from the center and the right who He controlled Parliament for three decades and since then he has participated in every government the country has had, including the most progressive.

The “centrón” parties have guaranteed governance at different times of the administrations of former presidents Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-2003), Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (2003-2011) and Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016), and They also played a key role in the latter’s downfall, which they abandoned to support his dismissal.

When Bolsonaro took power in January 2019, he did so without relying on this group, which he described as “old policy“And even associate Corruption, but in the middle of last year, When his popularity started to wane, he gave in and started offering him government positions.

The president’s main objective with this movement, publicly avowed by some members of the government, was block the way for some 120 requests for dismissal attempted by the opposition in the Chamber of Deputies, which decides on the matter and is controlled by the “centrón”.

(With information from EFE)

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