Lula says he still needs to defeat Bolsonaristas

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) took advantage of the celebration of the anniversary of the ABC Metalworkers Union, this Sunday afternoon (23), in São Bernardo do Campo (SP), to reinforce his recent criticisms against supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL), whom he classifies as extremists. “We defeated Bolsonaro, but not Bolsonaristas yet”, said the president in a speech during the event that also served to inaugurate the new board of the union entity that is his political cradle. served as a cradle.

Lula recalled the episode involving alleged aggression against the son of Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), at Rome Airport, and associated it with a climate of extremism left by his predecessor. “A scoundrel not only offended him (Moares) but also hit his son. He was expelled from his party (PSD) yesterday (22) by Kassab ”, he said, referring to the decision of the president of the party, Gilberto Kassab, who is secretary to the governor of São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans).

For the president, Bolsonaro’s passage through the Presidency has social repercussions to this day in the form of “crazy people on the street offending people”, which would prevent the country from presenting a more “civilized” daily life. Last Wednesday (19), Lula had already publicly condemned the Brazilian accused of attacking the STF minister. “Such a citizen is a wild animal. He is not a human being,” he said. On the occasion, he also called those who promote these alleged attacks neo-fascists and defended that “these people” must be “extirpated”.

President says he will not govern for bankers

To the audience dominated by workers, trade unionists and left-wing politicians, Lula stated that he is combating hunger in the country and assessed that the price of meat is dropping, which would signal a favor to the “affection that the people have with picanha”. “A picanha at the weekend with the family and a cold beer is everything”, he said. will dedicate his mandate to improving the lives of Brazilians and that his commitment “is not with bankers”, but with the working class.

Then came the criticism of the Central Bank (BC) and the high interest rates left in charge of the speech by the president of the PT, deputy Gleisi Hoffmann (PT-PR), who accused the president of the BC, Roberto Campos Neto, of “sabotaging the country”, being appointed by Bolsonaro for this purpose.

Before participating in the event on ABC, Lula was at the Hospital Sírio-Libanês, in São Paulo, to treat the discomfort caused by arthrosis in the hip. After the celebration at the Union, the president returned to Brasília. Before arriving at ABC, the president was earlier at Hospital Sírio-Libanês, in the city of São Paulo, to treat the pain caused by arthrosis in the hip. After the event, Lula returned to Brasília.