The governor of Minas Gerais, (Novo), characterized the trial in the (Supreme Court) that investigates the participation of the former president () and other defendants in a coup plot as a “small thing” against political opponents.
In search of enabling a presidential candidacy, the miner has sought to attract Bolsonaro’s electorate, who is ineligible. In recent weeks, he has spent this field, as when in Brazil.
“There seems to be a certain political persecution of opponents, right? We have so many important topics in Brazil to deal with the future, so many decisions that depend on the supreme and often we stay there, let’s say, looking at small questions because those involved is a political opponent,” Zema told the interview on Wednesday to Radio Itatiaia.
He repeated the former president’s allies thesis that the action represents a kind of persecution, but also said he was “pleased to see the Brazilian justice”, with the right to broad defense.
Asked about his plans for next year and the possibility of running a place to the Senate, the governor said he will be a candidate for the executive.
“I don’t have much patience for debate, to be there arguing no. I just get the car, get the boot and see what’s going on on the factory floor.”
Zema was also asked whether the position on recent controversial statements is maintained. One of them was in an interview with Sheetwhen he stated that the dictatorship that prevailed from 1964 to 1985 is a “question of interpretation” and that it is up to historians to “discuss it”.
“We had a tough military regime in Brazil that, it is worth remembering, was clashed by both parties. At that time we had strongly armed left terrorist groups who murdered, kidnapped and had amnesty. I am against any kind of authoritarian regime,” Zema said on Wednesday.
The governor also commented on the statement when he compared homeless people to vehicles parked in forbidden places and again defended a law that prohibits that people sleep on the streets.
The lines of Zema directed to the radical right have Matthew Simões (Novo), pre-candidate for the government of Minas Gerais, because of the risk of drifting center voters in the next state campaign.
Simões has preferred to criticize President Lula (PT) amid the renegotiation of the debt of about R $ 165 billion with the Union.
Zema, who reaffirmed in the interview support for the deputy, said he will not go to the president’s agendas on Thursday (12) in the state.
In the morning, Lula will announce the extent of the indemnity to victims of the Mariana disaster, and in the afternoon he participates in ceremony for the delivery of Agricultural Machines in Contagem, in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte.
“First, I already had pre-scheduled schedules, hard to change. Second, President Lula’s events in Minas have been cheerleaders. So choose the finger who will participate. And if you are not that group, you would most likely be booed there, as you can see on other occasions,” said the governor.
