With a trajectory on the left, former Minister Aldo Rebelo, 69, surprised some in recent years with his approach to pockets, but not those who followed him closely at.
Colleague in the Legislature for 20 years, Aldo played with him football in the friendly at the time-a “pair of defense,” according to him, and the two traveled “often” to the Amazon by the Foreign Relations Commission, as the former parliamentarian told the vehicle.
“We climbed into the navy boats and slept in the bunk beds,” said the former deputy and former Minister of Defense, by the Minister of (Supreme Federal Court) Alexandre de Moraes in a statement about the 2022 coup plot on Friday (23).
The position on the Amazon, especially the attacks on the performance of NGOs and environmentalists in the region on the grounds of preserving sovereignty, was precisely one of the themes that approached the two, albeit in different political spectra-always on the right and Aldo, a former member against the dictatorship, by the BC, which was affiliated for about 40 years.
Other affinities between the two were the appreciation by the military and the patriotic tone.
No wonder, the now former president, then deputy of Baixo Clerian, even went to Granja do Torto in 2002 to request Aldo’s nomination as Lula Defense Minister.
“I came to try a little space on Lula’s agenda to deny this story that Aldo has restrictions on the Armed Forces. On the contrary, he is a person who understands the subject and has great respect,” Bolsonaro said.
He also stated at the time that a historical representative of the right was not strange to work in favor of a leftist. “Things have changed. Today, communist takes whiskey, lives well and goes to the pool.”
Bolsonaro was not received by Lula. But with good relations between the military, Aldo became minister of defense in the government of Dilma Rousseff (PT) in 2015 and 2016. He left with the impeachment of the petista, of which he was a strong critic.
The distance from the former minister from the left gained repercussion in 2024, when he was appointed to be secretary of International Relations of Mayor Ricardo Nunes (MDB), Bolsonaro’s candidate in the municipal election of São Paulo.
The choice for office was praised by Bolsonarists such as Fabio Wajngarten, former Bolsonaro Communication Secretary.
One day before the choice was sealed, the former president published an interview excerpt in which Aldo, then at the PDT, said that one cannot “attribute any seriousness” to the attempted Bolsonarist coup that is on the target of the Supreme Court (STF).
HAS Sheet Allies of former Government Minister Dilma stated from their youth: nationalism, democracy and social rights. The left agenda was that it would have changed, moving toward identy.
In the same year of 2024, Bolsonaro de Aldo over the Amazon and, in an interview, referred to former communist deputy as a “fantastic face.”
