Time.news – In full second wave of Covid-19, the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, he led a parade of motorcyclists his supporters on the streets of Brasilia. At the end of the journey, Bolsonaro greeted a group of sympathizers in front of his official residence and gave a short speech without a mask.
“This is not a political manifestation but of love for the homeland, it is a manifestation of all those who desire peace, tranquility and above all freedom”, said Bolsonaro, who hoped to participate in similar initiatives in other cities, such as São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte.
Despite in Brazil there are still about 2,000 deaths a day related to the coronavirus, Bolsonaro, who has often downplayed the severity of the pandemic, called Covid “a very serious problem of the past that we are slowly winning. “Although in the last month the contagion has slowed slightly, in Brazil the virus is out of control in much of the country.
Numerous states have imposed restrictive measures after the Supreme Court had sanctioned their authority in the matter but Bolsonaro threatened to revoke them by decree. “You can be sure that, as Supreme Chief of the Armed Forces, I will never send the army into the streets to keep you prisoners at home,” said Bolsonaro, “there is nothing more sacred than freedom for a man or a woman “.
A commission has just been set up in the Senate for investigate any “omissions” committed in the management of the pandemic from Bolsonaro, who intends to reappear in the elections of October 2022. “Our motto is God, Country and Family, uncomfortable for many people but we know that it is the essence of all of us”, underlined the Brazilian president.
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