Bolsonaro gives Kassab PSD votes for indictment at CPMI of 8/1

This Thursday (1), when speaking about the Mixed Parliamentary Inquiry Commission (CPMI) on January 8, former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) attributed the votes given by parliamentarians of the party to the president of the PSD, Gilberto Kassab. to the report that called for the indictment of the former president.

Currently, Kassab is head of the Government and Institutional Relations Secretariat of the government of São Paulo, a state governed by Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans), Bolsonaro’s political godson.

“Kassab ordered all his deputies and senators to vote against Jair Bolsonaro, in favor of the report, to indict me at the CPMI regardless of evidence so that he would have three ministries in the Lula government. This is the profile. Kassab well represents the character of the old Brazilian politician”, stated the former president during an interview with the program No filterfrom the west magazine.

In the same interview, when talking about the accusations of maintaining a “parallel Abin” in his government, Bolsonaro said that “when the left accuses someone of something it is because they are doing that thing”.

To explain the statement, Bolsonaro turned to the biographical book: A black sheep in power – Confessions and intimacies of Pepe Mujica. Released in 2015, the book deals with confidentiality of the former president of Uruguay regarding the use of Venezuelan, Cuban and Brazilian intelligence by former president Dilma Rousseff.

Bolsonaro cited an episode narrated in the book in which Dilma and an advisor to Mujica met secretly in 2012, and the PT member sought the support of the former president of Uruguay to remove Paraguay from Mercosur and integrate Venezuela into the bloc.

Mujica was against the removal of Paraguay and Dilma was orchestrating a reprisal against that country because of the impeachmentt of former president Fernando Lugo, a friend of the PT member and member of the São Paulo Forum.

“How would Mujica be convinced to remove Paraguay? Dilma gave this advisor a collection of materials. He had photographs, videos, telephone recordings, snooping material there. And where is the most important part of all this? This material was obtained by Cuban and Venezuelan intelligence […] So, the serious fact: Dilma Rousseff used Cubans, Venezuelans and Abin itself to obtain her reports and achieve her objectives. What happened at the time is a crime,” said Bolsonaro, citing excerpts from the book.

“We started talking about Abin at that moment, in 2012, and we could reach this moment where we are accused of having a ‘parallel Abin’”, concluded the former president.