08/28/2021 17:42
Clarín.com
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Updated 08/28/2021 5:42 PM
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said this Saturday that he has three alternatives for his near future:
"Being imprisoned, dead or victory"
, in a meeting with evangelists during a visit to the Goiania region.
"I have three alternatives for my future: being imprisoned, being dead or victory. You can be sure that the first alternative does not exist; I am doing the right thing and I do not owe anything to anyone," said the president, who
aspires to re-election in 2022
, according to statements reproduced by the local press.
Amid
tensions with the judiciary
, the president
once again charged
the Supreme Federal Court (STF) and the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), and warned:
"No man here on Earth is going to intimidate me
."
He also denounced the "arbitrary measures" of justice.
Bolsonaro suffered a setback on Wednesday, when the president of the Brazilian Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco, rejected his
request to initiate an impeachment process
against Alexandre de Moraes, one of the eleven judges of the STF, and a member of the TSE.
Bolsonaro, during a meeting with evangelists in Goiania.
The dispute began months ago, among other causes, due
to Bolsonaro's questioning of the legitimacy of the electronic voting system
in Brazil, in force since 1996.
The Supreme Court opened different files against the president.
And earlier this month, De Moraes
ordered an investigation into the Brazilian president
for crimes of "slander" and "incitement to crime."
On the other hand, the TSE included the president in an investigation initiated in 2019 by the STF to determine the origin of
false news, offenses and threats to several of its judges
.
On Friday, before traveling to Goiania, Bolsonaro
encouraged the population to arm themselves
: "Everyone has to buy a rifle. An armed people will never be enslaved," he said.
- Goiás (08/28/2021)
.
Link to our channel not YouTube: https://t.co/wUnGzrSIA0
- Jair M. Bolsonaro (@jairbolsonaro) August 28, 2021
And, at a time when inflation concerns are growing, he added: "I know it's expensive. Some idiot may say 'you have to buy beans.' Man,
if you don't want to buy a rifle, don't bother whoever wants to buy it.
" .
On the morning of this Saturday, in the capital of the state of Goiás, the president
walked without a mask
among an agglomeration of followers outside the temple, according to images on his social networks.
Then he called from the stage to evangelicals - a key group in his electoral base - to participate in the acts in his support scheduled for September 7, when Independence Day is commemorated.
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