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The elected President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, threatened to withdraw the official advertisement to the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo, the most sold and influential in the country, under the accusation of lying with allegations of corruption and embezzlement of public funds against him.
Bolsonaro spoke during an interview with Globo Press Channel. The presenter and editor of the program asked: "You always claim to be a defender of press freedom, but at times you want a newspaper to cease to exist." As elected president, will you continue to defend freedom? of the press and the freedom of the citizen to choose what he wants to read, what he wants to see and hear?
"I do not want Folha to end, but as far as I'm concerned, the media that behaves in an unworthy manner will not have the resources of the federal government, but Folha alone will be finished," said the president-elect.
The former captain of the far right showed irritated with the newspaper Folha for considering that he had lied when he had published that Bolsonaro-friendly businessmen had violated the electoral law by illegally funding for at least $ 4 million a series of "false news" "against the electoral rival Fernando Haddad in the campaign for the poll.
Also the newspaper denounced that Bolsonaro had like employee of his residence of holidays to Angra two Reis, Rio de Janeiro, to a "ñoqui" of the Congress, something that until now the deputy denies the plane .
"In itself, this newspaper is finished, it has no more prestige, almost all the" false information "that circulated against me have remained from Folha de Sao Paulo, including the last note, according to which I would have hired companies outside of Brazil, via businessmen here, spreading lies about the PT, a big lie, another "fake news" from the Folha newspaper of Sao Paulo, unfortunately, "said the elected president.
Indeed, the article published in Folha on October 18 indicates that several businessmen have encouraged the sending of messages by WhatsApp against PT, but that, according to the newspaper on its website Tuesday, Bolsonaro had not hired businessmen abroad.
Bolsonaro too announced that the only open public television channel of the Brazilian national state will no longer be broadcast.
It is the public TV channel Brasil, created by the government of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. "Brazilian television will be sold or extinguished," he said, estimating it would cost about $ 300 million a year.
During his televised interviews, he congratulated Record, which did not hide its preference for Bolsonaro, to "show a neutral journalism".
Record supports Bolsonaro since the campaign and the public concession belongs to the tycoon Edir Macedo, owner of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, one of the most important Pentecostal cults of Brazil and South America .
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