Zema quotes Mussolini and then says it was in a critical tone – 07/03/2023 – Politics

The governor of Minas Gerais, Romeu Zema (Novo), said that a post made on social networks with a phrase attributed to the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini about freedom served as a warning to the population of the risks of an excessively bureaucratic State.

Last Saturday (1st), the day after former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) was declared ineligible by the TSE (Superior Electoral Court), the governor published on Instagram the phrase “We were the first to state that, the more complex civilization, the more one must restrict the freedom of the individual”.

After the text, Zema credited the phrase to the Italian dictator and wished his followers good morning.

After the negative repercussion of the sentence, the governor, through his advisory, sent a note in which he states that he defends “individual freedoms, including the right to come and go and access to private property and free elections, conditions made possible only by the democracy”.

According to the note, “the quote in question was posted as a warning about the risks of a swollen state, with high tax collections and unregulated spending, but without the capacity for basic investments for the population.”

“This scenario means, in practice, that the more bureaucratic and complex the state is, the greater the risks of jeopardizing the freedoms of all Brazilians”, concludes the text.

The governor of Minas Gerais supported Bolsonaro in the last presidential election and is quoted as a possible candidate to run in the next elections on the right, inheriting the former president’s electoral assets.

Last Friday (30), Bolsonaro said that Zema is an option in his political field for the presidential elections, but not for the next election.

“I have deep respect for him. In my opinion, he did a good job here, because he took a state destroyed by the PT and, as a good miner who works in silence, it is an option for the future, 2030, 2034, 2038, it is a good option”, he said, in an interview with the newspaper O Tempo.

Benito Mussolini led Italy from 1922 to 1943. Called Il Duce (the leader), he was a central figure of fascism and inspired Adolf Hitler, the Nazi who commanded Germany from 1933 to 1945, the year of his death.