While his country is one of the most affected in the world by the pandemic, Jair Bolsonaro has cracked a homophobic exit to put the Covid-19 epidemic into perspective.
“Today, there is only for the pandemic, we must put an end to that.
I regret the dead, I regret them.
We are all going to die one day, everyone here is going to die, ”the far-right president said on Tuesday during a speech on tourism at the Planalto Palace, seat of the federal government.
Before adding: "It is useless to run away from this, to run away from reality.
We must stop being a country of queers.
We have to fight with our heads held high, to fight ”.
“Tem que deixar de ser um país de maricas”, diz o Presidente da República sobre as mortes por Covid-19 pic.twitter.com/YBhWMUddMV
- Samuel Pancher (@SamPancher) November 10, 2020
“You were on the ground during this pandemic, which was oversized,” he also said.
The Covid-19 pandemic has claimed more than 162,000 lives in Brazil and infected some 5.6 million people in the country, an underestimated figure according to experts.
Used to homophobic, sexist and racist excesses
This is not the first slip of the Brazilian leader, assumed homophobic.
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, in 2011, the one who presents himself today as the new "right man" of Brazilian politics, the defender of justice and the family - yet divorced and remarried twice - declared that he would be incapable to love a homosexual son.
"I would prefer that he die," he said then.
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Jair Bolsonaro has also multiplied sexist outings.
At the birth of her fifth child, her only daughter, Jair Bolsonaro, had stressed that she was the result of "a moment of weakness", implying that he should have had a boy.
In 2014, the Brazilian head of state also insulted an opposition parliamentarian by telling her that she did not even deserve to rape her.
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During his speech, Jair Bolsonaro hailed as a "victory" the suspension in Brazil of phase 3 clinical trials of a vaccine against Covid, the CoronaVac from the Chinese laboratory Sinovac.
"Death, disability, abnormalities ... that's it, the vaccine that Doria wanted to force all the inhabitants of Sao Paulo to receive", launched Tuesday the president of the extreme right on Facebook, in reference to the governor of the State of Sao Paulo, his political opponent Joao Doria.
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