Brazil’s Workers’ Party (PT) has denounced President Jair Bolsonaro before the Supreme Electoral Court after the President organized a motorized election caravan in Sao Paulo state on April 16 in violation of the schedule set for election campaigns.
Telesur points out that the PT has stated that the Accelera para Cristo event led by the Brazilian head of state is considered early electoral propaganda, which is why it rules out any attempt to qualify it as a consequence of the exercise of his duties as president.
“Jair Bolsonaro’s participation was active and proactive from the start, he publicly proclaimed the event, he rode his motorcycle all the way, incited his supporters with gestures typical of his campaigns, he got into a car, he held a rally, he asked for votes, explicitly and implicitlydenounced the PT’s lawyer, Eugênio Aragão.
Earlier, the PT denounced the President for the caravan first organized in Sao Paulo on April 8, in which he also carried out unprepared campaigning with the participation of the Rural Society of Paraná and MP Filipe Barros.
According to the Secretary of State for Public Security of Sao Paulo, what was organized impacted the state’s public coffers with about 1 million reais – about $200,000 – an amount of money used to increase surveillance during the contingency.
It is worth noting that spending on the first activity of this kind in São Paulo last June included 1,433 police officers, five planes, ten drones and almost 600 vehicles.
Accusations also to the army for curious purchases
The Brazilian army’s quirky purchases remain at the center of scandals after opposition MP Elías Vaz on April 12 expanded the lawsuit against the military, which had spent money on private medical supplies including 35,000 Viagra pills, 60 silicone penile prostheses and drugs … to combat baldness.
The allegation by the centre-left federal deputy points to an exaggerated waste of money.
Vaz, from the Brazilian Socialist Party, obtained this information from the Government Transparency Portal, a free-access government platform that allows data on public spending to be checked upon prior request.
In all, the government spent about $745,000 on silicone prostheses between 4 and 10 inches, each worth between $10,000 and $13,000.
The Department of Defense justified the purchase of these products with the fact that they are intended for treatment Patients with pulmonary arterial hypertensiona condition for which Viagra is used, although it is a rare pathology that mainly affects women.
In the case of the inflatable silicone penises, official sources said they were delivered to military hospitals in São Paulo and Mato Grosso do Sul.
“Bolsonaro and his gang continue to make fun of Brazilians”exclaimed Vaz on his Twitter account.