GDias takes glue to the CPI with ‘loyalty’ to Lula; see photos – 08/01/2023 – Power

Former GSI (Institutional Security Office) minister General Gonçalves Dias took to the MST CPI, which investigates the social movement, a glue for his testimony, including reminders such as “don’t convince people”, “short answers” and “if stick to the facts”.

The glue also indicates phrases such as “loyalty to the PR”, in allusion to President Lula (PT), and “why was my resignation” – the latter followed by ‘personal act/beginning of involvement plt (sic) in my function'”.

GDias, as the soldier is known, testifies in a CPI session this Tuesday afternoon (1st). The guidelines were handwritten on a notepad that remained in front of the former minister during his hearing.

Also among GDias’ notes: “concentrate on what I did”, “narrative – I took all the steps”, “stick to my performances” and “be emphatic/bureaucratic”.

The general, a friend of Lula, resigned from his post in April after the release of images that called into question the agency’s performance during the January 8 coup attack. Videos of the closed security circuit during the invasion of the headquarters of the Presidency of the Republic showed a collaborative action of agents with coup plotters and the presence of GDias in the place.

The glue indicates that the former minister was prepared to answer questions about the coup acts of January 8 — although the scope of this CPI is the MST. Phrases like “the one who spoke to the president about the invasion of the palace”, “I called when I arrived”, “do your job”, “I did what I could with the information I had” appear on the pages of the notebook.

GDias was summoned so that he could report to CPI parliamentarians on “actions carried out by the Brazilian Intelligence Agency in monitoring land invasions that occurred in Brazil” during the period in which he served as minister. The request was authored by the rapporteur of the CPI of the MST, deputy Ricardo Salles (PL-SP).

Lula’s former minister had asked the STF (Federal Supreme Court) not to attend the CPI, but had his request denied. Minister André Mendonça, of the STF, assured GDias the right to remain silent on issues that could incriminate him, in addition to being able to be accompanied by a lawyer.

Right at the beginning of his testimony, Salles avoided the commission’s theme and asked the former minister what his assessment of the 1964 military coup in Brazil was, referring to the episode as a “revolution” —which caused turmoil and squabbles between the gifts.

GDias responded that what propelled his military career was his “vocation of wanting to be a soldier” and a “need for his family”. “Getting into this situation, whether the 1964 movement was good or bad is controversial. And I wouldn’t want to get into that field,” he said.

Salles insisted on the same question three more times, generating a reaction from the parliamentarians who were on the committee. “The Brazilian Army has always been proud of the important measure of March 31, 1964, because, if it weren’t for March 31, 1964, we would have arrived more quickly where some here want to arrive at this moment. a certain betrayal of your colleagues in the barracks for you not to say that 1964 was a good measure”, said Salles.

Deputy Camila Jara (PT-MS) repudiated the rapporteur’s statement and said that “it is not acceptable for someone democratically elected to make an apology for the military dictatorship”. Sâmia Bonfim (PSOL-SP) said that Salles is “a coward”.

“You are a parliamentarian, you should not applaud the horrors of the dictatorship against the Brazilian population. You shut your mouth because I am using my speaking time. You do not like democracy, you do not like to hear women talking and that’s why he praises the dictatorship,” said the PSOL deputy.

The president of the PT, Gleisi Hoffmann (PR), indicated that she could sue Salles in the Council of Ethics and Parliamentary Decorum of the Chamber. “We’re going to look for him [Salles] have a lawsuit in the Ethics Commission because it is not possible for a deputy elected to the National Congress to defend the dictatorship, defend 1964 and discredit democracy”, he said.

In the session, Salles also associated the landless movement with terrorist acts and asked if GDias had received alerts of the invasions that occurred this year while he was in charge of the GSI. “I, as a minister, have not received any intelligence reports through the Sisbin system. [Sistema Brasileiro de Inteligência]”, he responded.

When asked if he was in favor of land invasions, GDias replied: “Of course not. Each one has to be studied, each situation has to be studied. You can’t work in a generic way”.

Throughout the session, opposition parliamentarians also made several mentions of the coup acts of January 8 and the mixed CPI investigating the incident. GDias responded to the questions stating that these acts are not part of the scope of the MST’s CPI and therefore he would not respond.

The former minister is yet to testify at the CPI on January 8. On June 20, the collegiate approved the summons of GDias, who has become one of the favorite targets of criticism from opposition parliamentarians, who accuse him of failing to invade the headquarters of the Three Powers.