Gilson Machado claims that former president spent almost half of the money raised from supporters in 2023
Former Tourism Minister Gilson Machado launched a campaign via To raise money for former President of the Republic Jair Bolsonaro (PL). On social networks, Machado said Bolsonaro needs help to pay lawyers and doctors and help his son Eduardo Bolsonaro, who has licensed from the House and moved to the United States.
It has two public pensions, one from the Army and one from the House, and receives money from the PL, party to which it is affiliated. In 2023, he raised more than $ 17 million via Pix, according to the report of the Financial Activities Control Board (Coaf). Now, the former president responds to a lawsuit in the Supreme Court (STF) and is defendant for the charge of planning and trying to give a coup d’état, and is ineligible by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE).
Bolsonaro also underwent recent surgery after an intestinal obstruction. The former minister informed the Bolsonaro CPF, which is the key to the former president’s Pix in an account in Banco do Brasil. He stated that the former president did not ask him to campaign and that the appeal is his own initiative after realizing the needs of the former head.
“I want to say that the president received in the other campaign 17 million reais, but has already spent in a year 8 million, has already started to dehydrate. It is why our concern. We will let the president dehydrate and then start to run after and he start not to pay lawyer, no longer defended?
*With information from Estadão Content
Posted by Carolina Ferreira
