On Tuesday (6) federal deputy posted a video about changes in Pix, and accumulates more than 134 million views until this Friday (9)
Government members of (PT) and allies used social networks to respond to the video of the federal deputy Nikolas Ferreira (PL-MG) On the scandal of deviations no. The Minister of Institutional Relations, the Minister of the Attorney General of the Union (AGU), and the head of the Union Comptroller General (CGU), Vinícius Carvalho, countered the deputy’s accusations without citing him nominally, Federal Deputy Lindbergh Farias (PT-RJ) uses Nikolas’s own video as a background to contest the parliamentary’s statements. On Tuesday (6) Nikolas Ferreira posted a video about changes in and accumulates over 134 million views until this Friday (9). In the recording of just over six minutes, Nikolas states that the fraudulent scheme is the “greatest scandal in history of Brazil”, makes accusations about the Lula government has not taken steps to investigate billionaire deviations, and defends former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL)-whose government was also crossed by INSS.
According to the investigation, illegal discounts on INSS retirees and pensioners began in 2016. The problem entered the radar in 2018, but fired from 2023, the first year of the Lula administration. “The moment requires serious measures and profound changes, as the government is doing. It requires the search for the truth, not the opportunistic lies of those who have not investigated anything and has never worried about protecting retirees,” said Gleisi Hoffmann in response to the deputy on his X (former Twitter) profile. The minister argues that the fraud began in Bolsonaro’s government, and that the former president was the one who sanctioned the provisional measure that ended the need for revalidation of discounts authorization in 2022. AGU Minister Jorge Messias referred to the “lacquer deputy,” and demanded that he and Bolsonaro explain the provisions of previous government. “I saw that a deputy made a video yesterday with the goal of sealing and causing terror and panic in the population. It is important that he question the president that he supported,” said Messiah.
“It’s not time to spread fear or lie. It’s serious, very serious, using a lie or context tricks to deceive the people,” said Carvalho. The video, published by the minister on Thursday, 8, has 14,200 views-almost 10,000 times less range than Nikolas video. The PT leader in the House already begins by citing the deputy, stating in his recording that “Nikolas Mente”, and intersperses the original video with his own version of the facts. The petista deputy resumes scandals from the Bolsonaro government, and questions why the former president did not send an investigation into the fraud during his administration. “Bolsonaro has lost, but the tentacles of pockets remained infiltrated in the state, doing damage, destroying the institutions and stealing the retirees,” says Lindbergh, reiterating the speech of governors and allies to the president, that it was at CGU initiative in the Lula government that the investigation began. The petista has reached 147,600 views so far: ten times more than the oak video, but still far from the 134 million Nikolas.
*With information from Estadão Content
Posted by Sarah Paula
