Gleisi minimizes Lula’s absence in left-wing acts – 03/23/2024 – Power

Federal deputy Gleisi Hoffmann, president of the PT, minimized this Saturday (23) the absence of President Lula (PT) in the left’s events.

“It is not the role of the government or the president to carry out social mobilizations,” said Gleisi, who was in Salvador.

The PT president said that the objective of the left’s actions was not to match in numbers that carried out by Jair Bolsonaro in Paulista, but to reinforce the fight against dictatorships and coup attempts.

“[O objetivo] is to do acts all over Brazil, regardless of size. To bring together people and those who fought against the dictatorship and leave it in the memory that we cannot go back to that time. And also to say that we do not agree with the January 8th coup attempt.”

Left-wing movements carry out a series of acts spread across the country, called in response to former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL), but which ended up being emptied amid the distancing of the Lula (PT) government and the split in the views of parties and activists on the relevance of the mobilization.

The protests were announced by parties and entities after an event last month that brought together a crowd on Avenida Paulista, in São Paulo, in favor of Bolsonaro, who is being investigated by the Federal Police in the investigation investigating an attempted coup.

The themes of the left-wing demonstration ended up being dispersed, including the memory of the military coup at the age of 60 and the request that there be no amnesty for coup plotters.

Gleisi also said that Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid “searched” and “leaked the audio” that led to his arrest again.

“Mauro Cid looked for it. He was on provisional release, he leaked the audio, he wanted to say that he had been pressured and had no evidence to base it on. I think it is within the legality”, stated Gleisi in Salvador, without citing evidence.

Bolsonaro’s former aide-de-camp, Cid stated in an audio released by Veja magazine that the Federal Police have a ready narrative in the investigations into the former president, said he was under pressure in the statements and criticized Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the STF (Supreme Federal Court), which approved his plea bargain.

The magazine published audios in which Cid also tells an interlocutor that the police wanted him to say what he doesn’t know or “what didn’t happen”.

On Friday (22), Cid confirmed to the STF the content of the testimonies of his award-winning collaboration and denied that he had been coerced by the PF to give the statements. Thus, he retreated from the tone adopted in the audios revealed by the magazine, but refused during the hearing to say who he was talking to, something the investigators wanted to know. The dialogue would have taken place via WhatsApp messages.

Gleisi also spoke this Saturday about the dispute with Zeca Dirceu for nomination for the Senate seat, if Sergio Moro’s (União Brasil) mandate is revoked.

“You have to know whether he will be revoked or not. If he is, many candidacies will happen and the PT will have a candidacy too”, he said.