Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said today that he agrees that the current head of state, Jair Bolsonaro, is considered a genocide and criticized the Brazilian Government’s policy of making arms access more flexible.
In an interview broadcast live on the UOL news portal, Lula da Silva was asked whether it was correct to call Bolsonaro a genocide for his behavior of denying the gravity of the covid-19 pandemic, which left the country with more than 242 thousand dead and almost 10 million infected, according to the Ministry of Health.
“I think, in fact I have called several times. A President of the Republic who does not care about the death of [quase] 250 thousand people, a President of the Republic who does not care to qualify his speech for society (…) a President of the Republic who has no respect for the situation that the poorest, sickest and oldest people are experiencing, only it may be a genocide. He doesn’t like life “, said Lula da Silva.
“Rather than being concerned with buying textbooks, rather than being concerned with generating employment, rather than being concerned with increasing employment, rather than being concerned with looking after people’s living costs, this President is encouraging the use weapons and weapons, “he added.
According to the ex-president, leader of the Workers’ Party (PT), who was prevented from running in the last elections by successive decisions of the Justice that he still disputes through his lawyers, namely the Lava Jato operation processes in which he was convicted of corruption , Bolsonaro believes that the country’s problems will be solved with “bullet”.
“[Bolsonaro] increase the number of pistols, increase the number of revolvers, the number of rifles, the number of shotguns, the number of cartridges [balas] that Brazil’s problem is solved. He can only be called a genocide “, he stressed.
The former head of state referred to a set of rules issued by decree by the Brazilian Government, making it easier to control the acquisition and possession of weapons in the country.
In a decree published on Saturday in the Official Gazette, the Brazilian government allowed citizens with possession and possession licenses to buy up to six weapons and two thousand ammunition per year.
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