NEW YORK (VINnews) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro claimed that he hides in his bathroom and cries when he is faced with making difficult decisions, as his popularity plummeted to an all-time low last week. Bonsanero spoke to some of his supporters at the Comunidade das Nações church last Thursday in Brasilia, the South American’s nation’s capital.
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‘Increasingly, we know what to do. Where to direct our forces. How often do I cry alone in the bathroom at home,’ Bolsonaro said. ‘My wife (Michelle Bolsonaro) has never seen it. She thinks I’m the macho man. I think she’s right so far.’
‘What makes me act this way? I’m no longer a congressman. With all due respect to the congressman, if he misses a vote, it may not influence anything. A vote in 513,’ he added. ‘But my decision badly made, many people suffer. It changes the stock market, the dollar, the price of fuel.’
Bolsanoro has been widely criticized for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has taken the lives of more than 600,000 Brazilians. A Senate investigation into the government’s handling of the coronavirus epidemic will likely recommend in its final report due Tuesday that Bolsonaro face 11 criminal charges.
The report is also likely to recommend that some of Bolsonaro’s sons and his former Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello be charged with crimes, according to Alagoas Senator Renan Calheiros, who is leading the probe.
If approved by the senate, the report will be submitted to the Attorney-General who will decide whether to press charges against the president.
A number of the charges refer to other alleged crimes unrelated to COVID-19. Bolsonaro is also accused of genocide against the country’s indigenous population, malfeasance, irregular use of public funds, violation of sanitary measures, incitement to crime and forgery of private documents.
The 66-year-old leader has held power since 2019 and the approval rating of his government now stands at 22%, the lowest since he took office. The country’s inflation rate has soared in recent years and unemployment is also very high.
If Bolsonaro will participate in the 2022 elections, current polls show him losing to his biggest political adversary, former leftist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Bolsonaro, a fierce opponent both of lockdowns and of vaccinations, continuously downplayed the severity of COVID-19 and once likened it to a ‘little flu.’ The Brazilian leader contracted the virus in July 2021 but recovered without significant side effects. He appeared last Tuesday on Brazilian radio station to Jovem Pan to vow never to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
Great leader. But at least he makes decisions. Biden can’t remember he’s president and states my staff told me to say…..
So they’d prefer a leftist Hugo Chavez? A mishiga velt