The president () said on Saturday (24) that he will “do politics” and walk around the country from next month to fight what he called “Lie”, “CanalHice” and “Fake News”.
The statements occurred during a trip to the interior of, where the launch ceremony of the Vivo Solo program took place, which foresees recovering degraded soil areas and strengthening family farming, according to the government.
“Next month, I’m going to do politics in this country. Next month, I’ll start walking this country because I think it’s time for us to take responsibility for not allowing the lie, canalhice, fake news, win space and the truth be buried in that country,” said the president.
He continued: “We are part of that kind of politician who at least do not want to lose the right to walk on the street with erected. I was raised by an illiterate mother, and the thing she most demanded from us is that we would not lie and that we respected others.”
The speeches occur after Lula undergoes crises intensified by opposition publications on social networks. This week, the government ran against time to announce (tax on financial operations) late on Thursday (22) for fearing the repetition of the traumatic experience of the Pix crisis in January.
At the time, the dissemination of distorted information on the taxation of operations done by the system invaded the networks and affected.
“I am convinced that we here have a moral obligation to make the truth defeat the lie in that country,” Lula said on Saturday.
The petista associated the lies with “mean people” and “aggressive”, “who does not respect adversary” and “who does not know how to live democratically”, although he did not mention former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL), his main rival.
He returned to the regulation of social networks and mentioned, at this time, the ban on cell phones in schools.
The president visited the settlement Santo Antônio da Fartura, in the municipality of Campo Verde (about 130 km from). The agenda also had delivery of agricultural machine keys.
Lula was accompanied by local ministers and politicians, including the governor of Mato Grosso, the pocketist Mauro Mendes (União Brasil).
Sitting next to the president, Mendes was the target of boos when he was quoted on more than one occasion during the ceremony. He also heard shouts from “Mauro, does L”, a reference from the public at Lula’s initial letter.
The governor supported Bolsonaro in the 2022 elections and by amnesty to those involved in undemocratic acts of January 8, 2023.
Another name present at the ceremony, the president of BNDES (National Bank for Economic and Social Development), Aloizio Mercadante, made a discourse with compliments to Mendes, seeking to highlight projects developed in partnership between the federal government and the state management.
But it also caused embarrassment by mocking, in front of the scholarship, the episode in which a Bolsonaro supporter hung on a truck in a protest after the 2022 election.
In a speech, the governor praised his own management and congratulated the president by the project initiative. By mentioning large farmers, he said the public should not go.
