In audio shared on social media, former Minister of Education Abraham Weintraub strongly criticizes the alliances that President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) made with the so-called Centrão.
When dealing with this year’s presidential elections, Weintraub says: “Today it’s either Lula, or we keep getting worse, because with him [Bolsonaro] It will keep getting worse.”
In the audio, Weintraub assesses that, by making alliances with Centrão parties, President Jair Bolsonaro “turned a dream we had, of change in the country, into a nightmare”.
“Historically, a president’s second term is usually worse than the first, it’s not in Brazil, it’s all over the world. A second term of President Bolsonaro, weaker than the current one, will be a horror. So today, I see it, the best case scenario is bad, and we have to prepare for resistance,” he added in the recording.
After the repercussion, the former commander of the MEC confirmed the veracity of the audio, which was taken from a public virtual room for conversations between Twitter users, and clarified that “I would never support Lula”.
“I speak clearly that the best alternative is Bolsonaro’s re-election. However, it will not be good! The second term is always weaker than the first. In addition, he will be more surrounded by Centrão”, explained the former minister, later, in a post on the networks.
After leaving the government, the former minister has criticized the alliances that the president made with Centrão parties, especially after Bolsonaro joined the PL.
Currently, Weintraub appears as a pre-candidate for the government of São Paulo and in the last poll of voting intentions carried out by Datafolha, he scored 1%. The former minister indicates that he will run for the state election by the PMB.
Craziness!
I WOULD NEVER SUPPORT LULA!
CENTRÃO created the ZV to destroy the conservatives.
I say clearly that the best alternative is Bolsonaro’s re-election. However, it will not be good! The 2nd term is always weaker than the 1st. In addition, he will be more surrounded by the CENTRÃO. pic.twitter.com/k0lCd7e9yO— Abraham Weintraub (@AbrahamWeint) April 7, 2022
“Destruction of the Conservatives”
In a video published on social media after the audio repercussion, the former head of the MEC says that Centrão is “trying to destroy the conservatives and create a smokescreen”.
“When I was there at MEC, there wasn’t a line out of place, there wasn’t a single accusation or suspicion […] In this MEC that Centrão put its filthy paws, a lot of suspicions have already appeared”, said Weintraub.
Weintraub did not mention recent allegations that reached the Ministry of Education and made the opposition gather signatures to open a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) on the case.
The complaints deal with suspicions that former Minister of Education Milton Ribeiro practiced undue benefits in the allocation of public funds from the MEC, through the intermediation of pastors Arilton Moura and Gilmar Santos, who would collect bribes from mayors – as reported by one of them to the CNN.
In testimony to the Senate Education Committee on Thursday (7), FNDE president Marcelo Lopes da Ponte confirmed that he participated in at least four agendas with these religious, but said he did not witness “suspicious conversations” in any of the meetings. occasions.
Ponte also denied that any Fund employee has relationships with pastors or even with mayors who would have benefited from the transfers.
Invited to the same audience, evangelical pastors Gilmar Santos and Arilton Moura, accused of influence peddling, sent letters informing them that they would not attend.
Prison of STF ministers
Economist Abraham Weintraub took over the MEC shortly after Ricardo Vélez Rodríguez was fired on April 9, 2019, and remained in the position for just over a year. Weintraub accumulated a series of frictions with other authorities, especially with ministers of the Federal Supreme Court (STF).
At a ministerial meeting on April 22, 2020, which was recorded and had its content released by decision of the STF, the then Minister of Education suggested the arrest of the members of the Court.
“I realize that there are a lot of people with their own agenda. I, myself, would put all these bums in jail. Starting at the STF”, he said at the time.
Because of the statement, Weintraub was included as part of the investigation that investigates threats and fake news against the STF.
The former minister was also the subject of another investigation, this time at the request of the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) for the alleged crime of racism.
At the time, in the face of the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic, he made a publication changing the letter “R” for “L”, referring to a prejudiced imitation of the Chinese accent, and stated that China would obtain political gains with a “ infallible plan” to dominate the world taking advantage of the crisis derived from the coronavirus.
After negative repercussions, the minister deleted the text. The Chinese embassy, however, said the posts had a “strongly racist nature”.
Identified with the so-called ideological wing of the Bolsonaro government, Weintraub was still the protagonist of controversies involving failures to carry out the National High School Exam (Enem), contingency of funds for education, incisive criticism against the “disruption” in federal universities and participation in acts of bolsonarista militancy.
The former minister left office after resigning in June 2020, claiming to have received an invitation to occupy a management position at the World Bank. Currently, Weintraub aims to run for the state election for the government of São Paulo and began to criticize the Bolsonaro government.
Source: CNN Brasil
