Bolsonaro doubled the number of PMs and GDF firefighters in Planalto – 01/23/2023 – Politics

President Jair Bolsonaro reached the end of his term with 85 military police officers and firefighters from the Federal District requisitioned to work in the Presidency of the Republic, almost double in relation to the period prior to his arrival at the Planalto Palace.

The PM of the Federal District was questioned for its failure to act in the coup attacks that destroyed the headquarters of the three Powers, on the 8th, which led to federal intervention in public security in the capital of the Republic.

Data from the Statistical Panel of Personnel of the Ministry of Finance show that the Bolsonaro administration not only increased the contingent of MPs and firefighters around him, but also spread their participation in other government bodies.

In November 2018, at the end of the Michel Temer (MDB) administration, there were 63 PMs and firefighters from the DF working in the government: 57 in the Presidency, 5 in the Ministry of Regional Development, and 1 in the Vice-Presidency.

In November last year (month with the most recent information), there were 110 —85 in the Presidency and the other 25 spread across nine other ministries or federal agencies.

In the ministries, the main contingent of police officers in the Federal District was in the Justice Department, commanded at the time by Anderson Torres, former DF Security Secretary and now arrested on suspicion of omission in the coup attacks on the 8th.

Such as Sheet showed on Thursday (19), Bolsonaro also reached the end of his term with a large contingent of members of the Army, Navy and Air Force working in the Presidency, maintaining the record numbers verified during his administration.

There were 1,231 active members of the Armed Forces, against 1,026 in November 2018.

A retired Army captain, Bolsonaro repeatedly relied on alleged support from the Armed Forces in his anti-democratic rhetoric, a preaching that became the main political inspiration of the coup vandals who vandalized the headquarters of the three Powers.

When assuming a position in the Presidency or in Executive bodies, the active duty military or the military police of the DF receives an increase in their remuneration, up to the limit of the salary cap of the functionalism.

Since the attacks on the 8th, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) has been criticizing the military and PMs from the DF who would have participated in or colluded with the coup demonstrations.

Until Thursday (19), the government has promoted the dismissal of 84 military personnel from posts they held in the Presidency of the Republic, 38 of which from the GSI (Institutional Security Office), the body in theory responsible for protecting the president and the Planalto Palace.

On Saturday (21), Lula dismissed the commander of the Army, General Júlio Cesar de Arruda, the first major casualty in his 21-day administration.

In an interview with GloboNews, the PT member said that none of the intelligence agencies was able to warn him about the attacks and that any soldier who participated in the coup acts will be punished, “no matter what rank or force” they belong to.

according to Sheet revealed this Friday (20), active-duty soldiers from the Navy, Army and Air Force who worked in the Presidency of the Republic under Bolsonaro participated in a WhatsApp group in which coup and violent theses were discussed and encouraged, in addition to attending the anti-democratic camp set up by extremists in front of the army headquarters.

Data from the Ministry of Finance’s statistical panel do not include the reserve military and police who were also employed on a large scale by Bolsonaro in the government, including at the top level.

One example is the current Minister of the Federal Audit Court, Jorge Oliveira. Former military police officer of the Federal District, where he reached the rank of major, Oliveira advised Bolsonaro in the Chamber of Deputies and, before being appointed to the TCU, he was Minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, from 2019 to the end of 2020.

THE Sheet failed to contact former president Jair Bolsonaro. The press office of the Federal District government stated that the military assigned to the government “generally are selected by it and requested from our corporation” and that it is not up to the agency to comment on the criteria and motivations for the requisitions.

Of the 85 military police officers who were seconded to the Presidency in November, currently 42 are firefighters. The advisory did not inform the exact current number of PMs working in the Executive.