Senator Ciro Nogueira (PP-PI), former minister of the Civil House in the Bolsonaro government, deleted this week a publication in which he used a traditional term of the papal conclave to mock the government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT). The post was made on Monday (21), the same day that was confirmed to.
“We have déficient! We have Fome! We have violence! Que God ilumine Oh Brasil”Wrote Nogueira, in reference to the Latin expression “Pope”used to announce the election of a new Pope after the meeting of the cardinals in the Vatican.
The coincidence with the date of the death of Francisco generated a strong negative repercussion on social networks, with accusations of disrespect and political opportunism.
Given the repercussion, the senator deleted the post. After the controversy, he stated that the content had no direct relationship with the death of the pontiff and that the target of criticism was exclusively the situation of the country under the Lula administration.
The publication repercussions especially between Catholic and parliamentary users of the opposition, who considered the use of inadequate religious symbolism, especially in the context of global grief. Even erased, the post had already been widely shared and generated debates about the limit between political satire and respect for sensitive themes.
Ciro Nogueira is one of Progressives’ main leaders in Congress and has been positioned as a constant critic of the Lula administration. The attempt to associate the solemn moment of the Catholic Church with political criticism generated noise in a scenario already tensioned by ideological disputes on social networks.
