The former president (PL) said, in an interview with a YouTube channel this Tuesday (21), that he would not appoint generals again to ministries at the Palácio do Planalto, and that he would put more “strong” assistants in their place.
“You say: ‘what would you do differently’? The palace ministers would be different. I wouldn’t have some names there, a general here. I wouldn’t have a general there anymore. I would have tougher, thicker-skinned ministers, to face the system “, he declared during
According to people close to the former president, his irritation with military personnel who participated in his government has been growing in recent months. Bolsonaro considers that they were ineffective and omitted in the relationship with the political class and the Judiciary.
The outburst occurs amid investigations into an alleged coup plot that would have had the participation of Augusto Heleno, former head of the Institutional Security Office, and Mário Fernandes, who was number two in the General Secretariat of the Presidency.
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