In the last week, the government promoted dozens of dismissals of military personnel who worked at the Alvorada Palace, at Granja do Torto and at Planalto.| Photo: Marcelo Camargo/ Agência Brasil

The Lula government (PT) exonerated six more military personnel who exercised functions within the Office of the Presidency of the Republic, Vice-Presidency and the Institutional Security Office (GSI). The waivers were published in the Official Gazette this Monday (23). In the last week, the federal government promoted dozens of dismissals of military personnel who worked at the Alvorada Palace, at Granja do Torto and at Planalto.

On Saturday (21) President Lula (PT) dismissed Army Commander General Júlio Cesar de Arruda. General Tomás Miguel Ribeiro Paiva was chosen to take his place, who days before gave a long speech preaching confidence in the result of the polls and non-partisan Armed Forces. Defense Minister José Múcio Monteiro stated that there was a “fracture in a level of trust” to justify Arruda’s dismissal.

Lula has publicly declared his distrust of the military who acted in the management of former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and this suspicion was accentuated after the acts of vandalism on January 8 in Brasília. Recently, Lula stated that “many people” from the Armed Forces were colluding with the invasion of the headquarters of the Three Powers.

The president also stated that he would carry out a “screening” to identify supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro who still worked inside the Palace. “We are at the moment of carrying out a thorough screening, because the truth is that the Palace was full of Bolsonaristas, of the military, and we want to see if we can correct it so that we can place a career employee, preferably civil servants, or who were here or who were removed, so that this here becomes a civil office”, he declared.