The second tsunami of the week

From Rio de Janeiro

With his usual delicacy, far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has referred to protesters who protested yesterday in the country, reuniting a generous couple of millions of people, considered "idiots" useful, fools, maneuver ". He took advantage of the 14 million unemployed Brazilians from Dallas, Texas, where he is. According to the captain-president, "they are people without qualifications, because teaching in Brazil produces ignorant people".

The reason for the suspension of clbades and street demonstrations – which included schools and private faculties – was the reduction of the budget allocated to education, with particular discontent with higher-level courses. The average is 30%, but in some cases it is 42%. Scholarships and investigations were suspended and several universities announced that they would suspend their activities from September. The measure even reaches the infant education, which will cease to receive federal contributions.

While Minister of Education, Abraham Weintraub, an economist with no experience in the sector (and who also makes absurd errors in spelling and grammar agreement), remains in an aggressive tone and particularly derogatory to federal universities, some of his advisers are trying to soften the situation, arguing that it is not strictly cutting, but "temporary suspension" of the government. sending of funds. If Weintraub declares himself ready to go beyond the Constitution which guarantees the pedagogical and administrative autonomy of public universities, his badistants say they are "open to dialogue".

The prosecutor's office, in turn, said the measure of the captain-president's government was "unconstitutional". But for the extravagant chief of staff, Onyx Lorenzoni, it's an "unforeseen" one. To better define her position, she compared the current adjustment with "the father who realizes in May that he will not have money for the luxury dress of his 15-year-old daughter in October. he then? Start reducing your expenses. "He took this opportunity to recall that the PT was responsible for everything, unaware that President Dilma Rousseff had been fired by a coup d'etat (in which he had actively participated as a as MP) three years ago.

In the afternoon and during a further defeat of the government before Congress, Minister Weintraub was called upon to give clarifications to the deputies. With the help of informal data, he was mbadacred by the opposition.

It was the first mbad protest against the government that reached all provinces of the country. This also coincided with terrible news in the economic field: in the first quarter of the year of creation of the right, the economy had fallen by about 0.7%, the projections for the performance of the gross domestic product had been reviewed eleven times – for the first time. less, even insinuating the possibility of a recession, and the sacrosanct financial market shows signs of discouragement more and more palpable.

Last Friday, Bolsonaro said that this week he was planning a "tsunami". Well: Monday, the justice announced the bankruptcy of the tax and banking secrecy of the presidential son Flavio, ex-military policeman Fabricio Queiroz and 86 other people. Both will need to provide details on "atypical movements" in their accounts.

Yesterday, the second tsunami broke out: millions of people have been on the streets against the government. When will the third come? How many Bolsonaro will hold?