Secretary of Culture Regina Duarte: “This Is Crazy. I Think Bolsonaro Is Letting Me Go”
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – An article in Crusoé magazine, known as Lava Jato’s mouthpiece, states that Secretary of Culture Regina Duarte would have told an advisor she believes she is being dismissed.
“That’s crazy, that’s crazy. I think he (Bolsonaro) is letting me go,” she said.
Regina Duarte supposedly also said: “I spent all night … I woke up every other hour and said: ‘It’s strange, it’s very strange’.
The trigger for Regina Duarte’s apprehension was the reappointment of Dante Henrique Mantovani as president of the National Arts Foundation (FUNARTE).
His appointment was published in the Federal Gazette on Tuesday, May 5th, signed by the Presidential State Chief of Staff Braga Netto.
Mantovani had been removed from office by Duarte herself, two months ago, on the day that she took over the command of the Secretariat of Culture in the Bolsonaro government.
Source: Fórum
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