As was expected (as long as there's no #fraud), the candidate of the now ex-president of the #HouseofRepresentatives, #RodrigoMaia, one of two biggest obstacles to the #Bolsonaro administration along with the #SupremeCourt (#STF), lost the election. #ArthurLira, #Bolsonaro's choice, won 302 votes, nearly 2/3 of the house. At least in rhetoric, this is a big win for the government. Time will tell.
The #STF (Brazilian #SupremeCourt) ruled that states can buy vaccines without the approval of the #ANVISA ('Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária,' or National Health Regulatory Agency), which is the Department of Health's branch responsible for giving the approval of safe use of any product or service that's related to health, produced in #Brazil or imported. Under this rule, the approval of a vaccine by the health agency of the country of origin will be enough.
Among the governors in favor of bypassing the gov't's agency, #SãoPaulo's Governor #JoãoDória has been the most vocal, prompting President #Bolsonaro to repeatedly say that no vaccination will be sold in Brazil without ANVISA's approval. The decision of the STF is another humiliation for Bolsonaro if he doesn't have any card under his sleeve.
It's important to note that not a single vaccine company from any country has ever asked ANVISA for authorization so far, which is suspicious.
And today the STF voted unanimously in favor of compulsory vaccination. One more humiliation for the president (again, if he doesn't have any card unde his sleeve) who publicly and repeatedly said that no Brazilian would be forced to take the vaccine.
Some judges said that nobody will be forced to take it if it means people going through any kind of embarrassment or humiliation, but there's a caveat. Private and public institutions and businesses will be allowed to demand that their employees, clients, and customers prove that they are vaccinated. For instance, an airline can demand passengers to show this proof in order to board the plane or buy a ticket, and a school can demand it in order to accept an enrollment.
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Another action of malice from some of the mainstream news outlets was saying that a senator caught hiding money between his buttocks in #Roraima was the vice-leader of the gov't in the #Senate.
Yes, he was the vice-leader, but he was not a direct nomination. He was chosen to be the vice-leader by a party that happens to support the president, but #Bolsonaro had no role in choosing him.
AND THE #SUPREMECOURT'S (#STF'S) POLEMIC PUNISHMENT One of the judge-ministers punished the senator with a 90-day suspension and this decision outraged many congresspeople and senators, and was widely criticized. The reason is that the judge-minister didn't wait for the regular proceedings to take place, which included the #Senate itself to take some action.
The judge-minister's decision has been seen as a disrespect for the separation of powers and as a virtue-signaling act; an unconstitutional act.
#brazil #jairbolsonaro #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation
One of the Brazilian #SupremeCourt's judge-ministers let a high profile drug dealer leave prison and now police doesn't know where he is. Among the crimes #AndrédoRap had committed was the delivery of tons of cocaine to #Europe.
After the House of Representatives dismantled an anticorruption package and voted for it, criminals no longer need to stay in jail before their case is judged by the fourth and last court; the highest, the Supreme Court. Until then, a criminal can remain free, or go back into the streets.
But, in order for the criminal to remain free or go back into the streets, a letter of justification of incarceration has to be sent for the next higher court judge to sign, and this letter has the validity of three months, otherwise the criminal can't leave or remain free. This signature can take time, but if the criminal gets the money to pay for an attorney to rush their case into a superior court, problem solved.
In this drug dealer's case, the justification letter allegedly was not sent, and his attorney wrote a habeas corpus, to which the judge-minister accepted, even though he knew he was dealing with such a high profile criminal.
During an interview to #CNNBrasil on the radio, the judge-minister, #MarcoAurélio, abruptly ended the interview when the interviewer asked him to comment on the fact that the law-firm that wrote the habeas corpus belongs to one of his ex-employees in the Supreme Court.
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#Bolsonaro just had his first chance to appoint a #SupremeCourt judge, but the choice wasn't so outright pleasing to his electoral base as was #AmyConeyBarrett in the #UnitedStates. They were waiting for a clearly conservative name, but the one he chose, #KassioMarques, was involved in some controversial rulings and has also had some connection to leftwing people, groups, and politicians. Many people on the right side reacted aggressively and showed strong disappointment.
The president goes live every Thursday night and on the last one he explained that many of the bad things rightwing people are accusing the judge of were not well explained and that the media was talking advantage of that to provoke discord. He also said that he knows Kassio and has had some interactions with him, and that contributed to his choice.
Three of the rulings that angered rightwingers: 👉 #CesareBattisti, an Italian that was hiding in #Brazil accused of killing 4 people back in #Italy, was denied deportation by the #STF (Supreme Court) back to Italy to pay jail time, and Kassio had a role in this, but Bolsonaro also explained that there was something to it, and that the truth is that Kassio didn't vote against his deportation; 👉 Another ruling that angered rightwingers was that he voted against a City Hall ruling against something related to the #LGBT agenda. In fact he did, but he did so so that there wouldn't be a precedent for cities to rule over anything independently of the gov't, because just as that city was voting against something from the LGBT agenda, other cities could do the opposite and the gov't wouldn't be able to do anything; 👉 He was against the #LavaJato ( #CarWash ) operation; 👉 He was against going to jail after judgement in the equivalent to the circuit court in the #UnitedStates, allowing the defendant to remain free until their case is judged by the Supreme Court.
One final factor that contributed to Bolsonaro choosing Kassio is the fact that he's a name that has more chances to be approved by the Senate. This one, actually, is the biggest factor. The president said that a name that is largely approved by his base wouldn't stand a chance given how dominated by the left the Senate still is.
There's one curious thing. Many on the left are not happy with Kassio's nomination, which could be proof that Bolsonaro's choice might have been a proper move at this moment.
Some judges of the Brazilian Supreme Court (#STF) seem to have a plan to put an end to the #LavaJato ('#CarWash') operation, which started in 2014 and was responsible for putting the ex-President #Lula behind bars. The plan is to guarantee the majority of votes against the continuation of the operation before one judge retires in the end of the year and Bolsonaro appoints a new one, starting a process of de-leftizing the court.
But why is the STF interested in ending CarWash? That's not a short story, but we're try to summarize it. It seems to be two things. One is the fact that some judges might be involved with some people the operation is strangely avoiding investigating, and two seems to be ideological, being the judges aligned with the left.
Due to the success of the operation and Lula's prison, #Bolsonaro (then candidate to the presidency) expressed his wish to have the head of the operation, #SérgioMoro, in his cabinet as the Secretary of the Department of Justice, and so it happened. As time passed, Bolsonaro started to grow frustrated with #Moro. The frustration was because the empowerment and freedom Bolsonaro was giving the Law Enforcement was not making CarWash stronger, but the opposite. Even before Bolsonaro became president, the operation found evidence that politicians from a party called #PSDB, known in #Brazil to be the smart, the powerful, the educated, the suited-and-tied left was involved in corruption, but not a single one of them was subpoened for a hearing.
This led some Bolsonaro allies and some journalists to start observing Moro's moves more closely and analyzing his past, his connections, and to start reviewing his and his colleagues' decisions in CarWash. This scrutiny along with Bolsonaro's frustration with CarWash being slowed down and also seeing that not a single PSDB politician was being investigated resulted in him firing Moro.
Moro's positions only got clearer and clearer after he left the gov't, one of them being that he was actively trying to keep PSDB folks from being investigated due to close ties he, his wife, and several other people close to him have had with many of this party's members and others non-politicians that allegedly have a compromised relationship.
Bolsonaro's new DOJ secretary demanded that CarWash provided information about why dozens of thousands of information collected on politicians and ordinary citizens were collected without a clear reason, and also demanded information on why not a single PSDB politician had been subpoened to testify even when they have evidence of wrongdoings.
Numerous things that have been brought to light since Bolsonaro was elected reinforce the idea that some Supreme Court judges have complicated ties with PSDB politicians, and that CarWash judges are at least ideologically hand in hand with those. That could explain the unacceptable behavior the STF, along with the opposition-controlled Congress and Senate, has been having since Bolsonaro was elected, greatly interfering with the freedom of his administration to work on his electoral promises.
BOLSONARO'S STABBING Bolsonaro (and his allies and his voters) also got frustrated that Moro's term as DOJ secretary brough practically zero progress in who was behind his attempted murder, even though there is enough evidence to believe the stabber (#Adélio) didn't carry out his plan alone.
Some of the evidences are: 👉 He was a PSOL party member (leftist) a couple of years ago; 👉 There was a log as a visitor in the Congress system on the day of the stabbing; 👉 The voice of a person saying “Adélio, not now, not now” can be heard prior to the stabbing; 👉 Adélio had several phones; 👉 The next day, a very expensive and one of big-politicians' favorite law firm sent a group of lawyers on a private jet to defend Adélio.
CONSPIRACY THEORY Thanks to the internet and the social media, Brazilians learned some harsh truths the hard way, like the fact that the #militaryregime failed miserably to control leftists from critically infecting the government, and that the PSDB and #PT (Lula's) parties were not what they showed themselves to be, rightwing and leftwing, respectively, but both have always been leftwing, with PT being more solidly to the left. They purposefully played the opposites in an attempt to keep the country on the left. In Portuguese we call it 'playing the scissors.'
The left knew that Bolsonaro was, in fact, a rightwing candidate, and they knew he was honest and had never been involved in corruption scandals. They knew Bolsonaro was strong and that he could bring real change. They had to do something.
This conspiracy theory makes sense when we consider the evidences that Adélio didn't carry out his plan alone.