Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ), pre-candidate for President of the Republic, stated on Friday (8) that, if elected, his government could last up to eight years. The statement, made in Santa Catarina, goes against previous statements and signals that he could only serve one term. The movement, which began in February, was part of a strategy to expand dialogue with Centrão and the right, including the governor of São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans).
– My dream, and what I will achieve, is to end the government, Jorginho [Mello, governador de SC]be it in four years, in five years, in eight years, where we will be able to beat our chests and say: ‘Fewer people depend on politicians to bring food into their homes and bring dignity to their families,’ said the senator.
This Saturday, in Florianópolis, the senator was asked about the previous day’s speech and said that there was a “distortion”.
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– I am against re-election, but I think four years is too little for a single term. This will be a discussion that will be held in Congress. I don’t want re-election. I will work to get the PEC approved. I believe it will be approved, but let’s face it, four years I think is too little for a single mandate for so many things that Brazil needs to fix – he stated.
According to the proposal presented by Flávio in February, the President of the Republic would become ineligible for the same position in the subsequent term, reestablishing the model prior to the 1997 constitutional amendment, which established reelection in the country. In justification, the senator argued that the current system creates a “permanent state of election”, encouraging government officials to subordinate administrative decisions to electoral logic and weakening the principle of alternation of power.
Flávio Bolsonaro’s speech this Saturday took place during the launch of a thoroughbred ticket for the re-election of the governor of Santa Catarina, Jorginho Mello (PL). The composition, presented as part of the “Bolsonaro selection”, will include former councilor Carlos Bolsonaro (PL-SC), son of the former president, and federal deputy Caroline de Toni (PL-SC) as nominees for the Senate, in addition to Adriano Silva, former mayor of Joinville.
Criticism of the suspension of the Dosimetry Law
Still at the event in Florianópolis, the senator criticized the decision of Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), who suspended the application of the Dosimetry Law.
— It seems, once again, like a combined game; once again it is democracy that is shaken. It is a decision of the National Congress, in its vast majority, defending the amnesty law, which, in a monocratic stroke of the pen, once again, the Supreme Minister revokes the decision of us, the true representatives of the people. But Brazil seems to be getting used to this, but we won’t get used to it — said Flávio.
On the occasion, Flávio also accused the minister of having played a “combined game” with the rapporteur of the original text in Congress, federal deputy Paulinho da Força (Solidariedade-SP).
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— I find it strange, because it was Alexandre de Moraes himself who wrote the text that was approved by the National Congress. It was he who banned the debate in the Legislature, both in the Chamber and in the Senate, because we wanted a broad, general and unrestricted amnesty. And, strangely, the rapporteur in the Chamber is very close to the minister, because it seems that he received it directly from him, asking what could or could not be in this dosimetry text — he stated.
