Former Minister Ciro Gomes (PDT) responded on Saturday to the action filed by the Attorney General of the Union (AGU) at the 11th Federal Court of Ceará against him. The action, presented last week, accuses Ciro of having attributed to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva the crimes of corruption and embezzlement. According to the agency, in a video published on social networks, the former minister stated that Lula would have received bribes to create the program “Worker Credit”.
Given the repercussion of the action, Ciro defended himself:
“In recent years, I’ve silent to endure a huge Lawfare silently.” You know, it is the manipulation of the judiciary itself in Brazil to pursue people seen as enemies of the powerful. Many artificial processes are moved against me by politicians, agents of the loan sharks who suck the blood of the Brazilian people, ”said Ciro.
Following, he intensified criticism of the president:
“Now, finally, the biggest agents of the loan agents, President Lula, himself, from the top of his cowardice and manipulating the very power of the Presidency of the Republic, enters this judicial game in an attempt to shut up.” I challenged me in court for alleged attack on your honor, but not for slander, because that would give me the right to ask what is called the exception of the truth – which is proving that all I say is the purest truth. … Lula did not put the poor in the budget, put the poor in auction.
Ciro states that he has not offended the president and will not be silent in the face of what he considers an attempt to intimidate.
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As The globe He reported, Ciro was defended by licensed federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL), who was available to dialogue with the pedestrian about what he classified as censorship.
– Ciro criticized the creation of the payroll loan for private sector workers, saying that Lula follows his history of filling his bank pockets while weakening the population. Then I ask you: if he had not denounced this pro-banal policy of Lula, would this be happening to him? Of course not, right? Asked the deputy.
Ciro and Lula were allied during the petista’s first term, between 2003 and 2006, when the pedestrian held the position of Minister of National Integration. The break, however, occurred in 2018, when Ciro refused the invitation to be vice in Lula’s plate and traveled to Paris during the second round between Fernando Haddad (PT) and Jair Bolsonaro (PL).
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In 2022, Cyrus intensified criticism of the PT and has since maintained opposition stance to the current government. The divergence with the party even motivated the political break with his brother, Senator Cid Gomes, who left the PDT and joined the PSB.
This year, Ciro has rehearsed an approximation with sectors of Bolsonarism in Ceará, in an attempt to block the reelection of Governor Elmano de Freitas (PT).
