The governor of Bahia, (), criticized () in a speech during the government’s official act and said that the former president’s voters should be taken to “the ditch.”
“We had a president who smiled at those who were in the pandemic feeling short of breath. He will pay for his account and who voted for him could also pay the bill. He did in the package.
The statements were made last Friday (2) in America Dourada (427 km from Salvador), to an audience of supporters, federal deputies and mayors of municipalities in the region. In the city, the governor delivered land titles and inaugurated the State College Professor Nancy da Rocha Cardoso.
On the morning of Monday (5), visiting the works of the reform of the Castro Alves Theater, in Salvador, Jerônimo minimized the statements and said that they were taken from context.
“Anyone who knows me knows, I’m a religious person, I’m a family person, I will never treat any opponent with such a treatment. [A fala] It was decontextualized. I previously presented my nonconformation, my indignation as the country was being treated, “said the governor.
Following, he apologized for the terms used in the speech: “If the term dump and the term tractor was pejorative or very strong, I apologize. It was not my intention, I have no problem being able to register when there are excesses in the word, driven by indignation.”
The statements of the governor of Bahia were criticized by Bolsonaro. In a post on social networks, he said that the petista made “a speech loaded with hatred, that in any civilized scenario should generate immediate repudiation and firm institutional actions.”
“This kind of discourse, coming from a state authority, not only normalizes hatred, but encourages the worst: political and even physical murder of those who think differently. It is the institutionalization of barbarism with the varnish of ‘progressive freedom of expression’,” the former president said.
Opponents, PL leaders and Bolsonarist deputies also criticized the governor of Bahia. State Representative Diego Castro (PL) filed a formal complaint to (Supreme Federal Court) against Jerome and said that speech “surpasses the limits of political discourse and represents a threat to the physical integrity of opponents.”
