RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – In yet another call for the return to normality of economic activities, President Jair Bolsonaro repeated on Monday, 5, that “Brazil needs to get back to work.” The chief executive reiterated his speech about facing the virus and unemployment together, problems he classified as “very serious.”
“I’ve been hitting the same key since March of last year; we have two severe problems ahead of us, the virus and unemployment. And I have also always said the same thing about the measures to combat the virus; its collateral effects cannot be more harmful than the virus itself”, he said in an event to deliver homes in São Sebastião, administrative region of the Federal District. “Brazil needs to get back to work,” he added.
At today’s event, Bolsonaro visited and made the symbolic delivery of homes sponsored by Caixa Econômica Federal in partnership with the DF government. “People in need are receiving a benefit, a property sponsored by our Caixa Econômica Federal. It is a sign that there were people who didn’t stop during the pandemic,” he commented.
Reinforcing his position against the closing measures, Bolsonaro cited that of the four beneficiaries who will receive the new homes, one person is retired, and three are unemployed. “Humble people, only God knows how they are surviving,” he said.
Bolsonaro was accompanied by the ministers Rogério Marinho, of Regional Development, and Flávia Arruda, of the Government Secretariat, who will take office tomorrow, besides the president of Caixa Econômica, Pedro Guimarães, and the governor of Distrito Federal, Ibaneis Rocha (MDB).
Last month, Bolsonaro even filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court against the decree of the governor of the Federal District, Ibaneis Rocha, and the governments of Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul on compulsory Covid curfew. However, Justice Marco Aurélio Mello of the Supreme Court dismissed the action.
Source: Istoe
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