07/11/2021 2:56 PM
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Updated 07/11/2021 2:56 PM
70%
of Brazilians
consider that there is corruption
in the government of President Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right leader elected in 2018 with the promise of relentlessly fighting the diversion of public resources, according to a poll released this Sunday.
According to the survey by the
Datafolha
firm
, while 70% of Brazilians consider that there is corruption in the Bolsonaro government, 23% affirm that there is not and 7% claim not to know.
Datafolha, which
interviewed 2,074 people
over the age of 16 in different regions of the country on July 7 and 8, assures that its survey has a margin of error of two percentage points.
According to the survey,
63% of Brazilians believe that there is corruption in the Ministry of Health
and 64% say that the head of state knows about the deviations that have occurred in this portfolio.
At the beginning of the month, a march against Jair Bolsonaro in São Paulo.
Photo DPA
The survey was done after the Parliamentary Investigation Commission installed in the Senate to verify the alleged omissions and failures in the Government's management in the face of the covid pandemic
discovered alleged corruption
and deviations in the purchase of vaccines against the coronavirus.
In recent weeks,
complaints from senior officials demanding bribes
to approve contracts for the purchase of vaccines and nebulous negotiations, with suspicious intermediaries, regarding these acquisitions
have been aired
.
One of the witnesses questioned by the parliamentary commission, deputy Luis Miranda, revealed that he discovered one such corruption and reported it to the head of state, who promised to adopt measures to prevent the irregularity,
which he finally did not do.
Due to this omission, the Supreme Court authorized the Prosecutor's Office to
open an investigation for embezzlement
, which splashed the image of the far-right leader, whose electoral victory in 2018 is attributed to his promise of a relentless fight against corruption and his harsh attacks on the deviations discovered in the administrations of progressives Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff.
On Saturday, after another poll showed that
the majority of Brazilians (54%) support Congress opening an impeachment trial
with
impeachment
purposes for the crimes of responsibility for which he is accused, the president denied the accusations of corruption.
"
They have gone
two and a half years without corruption.
They want to charge me now with a crime of corruption despite the fact that not even a dose of those vaccines was bought," he said.
Bolsonaro's defense
According to the president, the suspicious contracts were suspended by the supervisory bodies because
"we have a filter, we have control"
, which prevented the purchase of vaccines in the investigated businesses.
Regarding the complaint that he did not ask the Police to investigate the corruption after being alerted to them by Deputy Miranda, Bolsonaro affirmed that
he cannot take preventive measures
based on all the information he receives.
Before being splattered by allegations of corruption,
Bolsonaro's image had already been deteriorating
due to his questionable management against the covid, since, amid the denialism of the president, contrary to confinements, masks and other preventive measures, Brazil became in one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic in the world.
Brazil is the second country with the most deaths from covid in the world,
with 533,000 victims
, and the third with the most infections after the US and India, with more than 19 million cases.
According to Datafolha, the index of rejection of the Bolsonaro government
jumped from 45% in May to 51% in July,
while the percentage of Brazilians who support his administration remained at 24%.
Other polls indicate that Bolsonaro
would be defeated in the second round of the 2022 presidential elections
by any of his main rivals and that the one preferred by the voters, by a wide margin, is Lula, the main opponent of the far-right leader.
Source: EFE
PB
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