In an attempt to separate himself from the siege and the new pricing announced by the United States, the senator (-RJ) has said that his father, the former president (PL), was responsible for the payment system that became beloved by Brazilians.
On the day Pix started registering the keys, however, Bolsonaro received praise from a supporter for the measure. The former president got confused and responded about one that week.
When corrected, he said he had no knowledge and that he would speak to the then president of the Central Bank, .
Despite his father’s lack of knowledge about the measure in his debut, Flávio has repeated the statement that.
It was October 2020 and the then president was talking to his supporters in the traditional playpen in front of the Palácio da Alvorada. “Congratulations on Pix, president, the new Central Bank system that will help the population with payments”, says a man.
Bolsonaro responds on another subject. “There’s one… I haven’t read it. We have one from [então ministro da Infraestrutura] Tarcisio [de Freitas] this week that will practically reduce bureaucracy in everything about civil aviation, pilot’s license”, he states.
The then president is corrected by the supporter, who explains: “this one from the Central Bank, for payments, 24 hours, 7 days a week”. “I didn’t know about it. I’m going to talk to Roberto Campos this week”, responds Bolsonaro — who had already mentioned Pix on his networks in February of that year.
Now, amid the electoral dispute between the president (PT) and Flávio, the paternity of Pix has returned to the debate after the government acted in an unfair and discriminatory manner in relation to other payment methods, in a reference to American card companies.
The conclusions are contained in a document released on Tuesday (2) by the USTR (Office of the US Trade Representative), which proposed one to deal with trade practices considered unfair by the Trump administration. The decision on whether or not to apply the taxes rests with the American president.
The US announcement comes days after Flávio met with Trump at the White House. The American president responded to the senator’s request to classify criminal factions as terrorists, a . However, with the attack on Pix and the tariffs, the meeting defended itself by saying that it had asked Trump not to tax Brazilian products.
In response, . During an event in Goiás, on Tuesday, the president displayed a poster with the words “Pix is from Brazil”. “The Bolsonaro guy was in the United States […] and asked Trump to intervene in the Brazilian Pix. Do you think we will leave? He won’t let it go,” he said.
The next day, in Minas Gerais, Flávio raised a sign stating that “Pix is from Brazil and Bolsonaro!!!”. The senator blamed Lula for the new tariff. “If the president had a good relationship with the USA, Brazil would be off this list. This tariff is from Lula, it is because of his aggressive behavior towards the USA”, he said.
The Central Bank’s Pix during the government of (), in 2018, when the president of the monetary authority was Ilan Goldfajn, and was launched in 2020, during Bolsonaro’s administration, when Roberto Campos was in charge of the BC.
On October 5, 2020, Pix went live for key registration. The system went into full operation on November 16, 2020.
A survey by the data analysis company shows that 8 out of every 10 opinionated messages on the subject are exchanged in more than 100,000 public Telegram groups.
Palver removes from this analysis messages considered neutral, such as links shared without comment and automatic clipping triggers, which only replicate news on a certain subject.
The monitoring refers to the period from May 27th to June 2nd and is linked to Flávio’s trip to the USA and May 26th.
