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Brazilian Right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro met Tuesday with advisers to finalize the government that will be charged with implementing its ambitious agenda as opponents plan their "resistance".
The former army captain, who had sworn after winning the Sunday election to "change the fate of Brazil," met with the best members of his team at home. rich contributor in a chic neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro.
Councilor Key Bolsonaro, Gustavo Bebianno, told reporters that the group would choose "a fighting vanguard for the transition period and the government".
Among the guests were also the likely choice of Bolsonaro for the chief of staff of legislator Onyx Lorenzoni and his main economic adviser, the liberal economist Paulo Guedes.
In his first interviews as president-elect on Monday night, 63-year-old Bolsonaro doubled his campaign commitments to implement his conservative agenda and fight crime and corruption.
He re-examined his most radical proposal to combat the rising crime rate in Brazil: to relax gun laws to allow "worthy people" to do justice to themselves.
"It is clear that violence in Brazil is a necessity, the country is at war," he told the Record TV channel.
"We want to change the law, we need to lower the minimum age (to carry firearms) from 25 to 21. We can no longer impose a burden on people who have a firearm at home to defend security of their family. "
He gave the hypothetical example of a truck driver who finds someone stealing his spare tire.
"He would give criminals the following example: he would shoot, the criminal element would be shot in self-defense, and the (driver) would go before (the authorities) but he would not be punished," he said. he declares.
– Crusader in the cabinet? –
Bolsonaro also said that he wanted to appoint anti-corruption activist Sergio Moro as Minister of Justice, or to appoint the judge – the head of the huge "Car Wash" registry investigation – to the Court. supreme.
The anti-establishment wave that Bolsonaro won was fueled in part by anger over the findings of Moro's investigation.
Since its launch in 2014, the vast investigation has revealed the large-scale looting of the state-owned oil company Petrobras and has resulted in a long list of corrupt politicians and corporate executives in prison.
"I have the intention of (approaching Moro) … maybe for the Justice Department," Bolsonaro said.
"I plan to speak with him, to find out if he is interested and, if there is an interest on his part, he will definitely be an extremely important person in a government like ours."
He also proposed to Moro the possibility of filling one of the two posts in the Supreme Court that were to be released during his term of office.
Although politicians of all stripes have fallen in on the investigation of "Car Wash", Moro has been accused of being particularly ruthless to the left – especially former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who had tried to return to the race for presidency this year. .
Moro has sentenced Lula – a highly controversial but still popular figure – to jail time for taking bribes from a Petrobras businessman.
The former leader is currently serving a 12-year sentence, which has led the courts to ban him from running for president.
Lula's deputy, Fernando Haddad, lost 10 percentage points in Sunday's election against Bolsonaro, as voters punished the Workers Party (winner of the last four presidential elections) for corruption and economic malaise.
– Protest plans –
Bolsonaro is due to visit Brasilia next week to meet the outgoing president, Michel Temer, said Bebianno.
Workers' Party leaders are due to meet in Sao Paulo on Tuesday to chart the future of the once dominant movement.
Demonstrations were scheduled later in the day in Rio and Sao Paulo against Bolsonaro, which shocked many people with its derogatory comments on women, blacks and gays.
The slogan of the demonstrations: "Resistance".
Brazil's President-elect, Jair Bolsonaro, finalizes cabinet choices
