The president spoke last Friday (3) with the commander of the Navy, Admiral Marcos Sampaio Olsen, about how the Force countered the accusations amid the debate on government spending cuts.
Olsen explained to the PT member about the advertising piece that mocked criticism that there are. Lula was irritated by the production and dissemination of the material alluding to (December 13).
Organized by the Minister of Defense, José Mucio, the conversation took place at Granja do Torto, one of the official residences of the Presidency of the Republic.
According to authorities’ assistants, the meeting served to calm the matter. The video had generated criticism of Olsen in the government and calls for the official to be fired from his position on the grounds that he had acted politically by making veiled criticisms of the Finance Minister’s (PT) fiscal package, which .
Olsen had the . Mucio’s conclusion was that the wear and tear of the eventual dismissal would be greater than overcoming the crisis.
The recording released by the Navy contrasted scenes of sailors during rescue operations and military training with images of people in leisure time enjoying beaches, parties and trips.
The record said that soldiers in the Navy would have to “get used to a life of sacrifice.” At the end, a sailor said directly to the camera: “Privileges? Come to the Navy.”
The footage was released on December 1, one day after the commanders met with the president, at lunch at Palácio da Alvorada on a Saturday, to explain their objections to the fiscal package.
Ministers heard by Sheet at the time, they considered the video to be inappropriate and a source of great embarrassment for the government
In response, according to reports, Olsen justified that he needed to show internally that the Navy was not helpless in the face of offensives against career benefits.
