President Lula and the governor of Minas Gerais, Romeu Zema (Novo), had a new friction, on Tuesday, 11, at the inauguration of the Flex Hybrid Technology Development Center (MG). During the event in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte, the executive’s heads exchanged indirect barbs on government folders and the economy.
“We are doing in Minas Gerais what any company does. Competent people, all my secretariat was selected just like Fiat hires here. Although we are the second most populous state in Brazil, we are the one who has the lowest number of secretariats, 14, but for team to win championship not need to put 20, 30 players on the field, it needs 11 stars and that’s what we have done here, ”Zema said when speaking at the event before President Lula.
The petista, who currently has 38 ministers, replied the governor.
“They say I’m lucky. And I wanted to know who wants to hire a goalkeeper who has no luck. I’m lucky, very lucky to set up an extraordinary team like this one here, because the important thing is not to discuss whether you have one or 10, the important thing is to discuss the quality of the people you have. I don’t just want a guy formed in philosophy, a engine -trained guy a guy formed in anything. The diploma is very important, but I want people who have, first and foremost, sensitivity in the heart to understand the problem of Brazilian society, ”said the petista.
Then the president said he had to return to the Presidency of the Republic to “the economy would grow over 3%again.” Lula then turned to the governor and asked: “How long had she been growing? Zema hasn’t remembered how long this economy didn’t grow 3%, neither you nor the economist. ”
Last month, the governor provoked President Lula on social networks by recording videos eating banana with shell and teaching fruit recipes. “It is not as good as (eating) pure banana, but you can face these times when prices have fired,” said Zema.
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In another publication, the governor went straight to say he would send “a very delicious recipe for the federal government to try.” Zema followed criticism of food prices in the country and resumed Lula’s statement, which suggested that the population stop buying products that are very expensive.
Earlier this year, the two starred in another change of barbs, this time about the state’s debt renegotiation program with the Union. Lula had stated that “what we did to the states that did not pay debts maybe only Jesus Christ did.” In response, Zema wrote in his X (former Twitter) account that “Jesus Christ would forgive all debts and never charge abusive interest from those who help build Brazil.”
