I would like to punch in the mouth. ‘Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Enraged by reporters on his wife payments

Brazil’s extreme-right president Jair Bolsonaro threatened a reporter in front of the pace on Sunday, after a question about the secret payments to the first lady of Brazil from a survey of the socio longtime family for corruption. “I like that hit you in the mouth,” the president told a reporter for O Globo, one of the major newspapers in Brazil, while walking outside the Cathedral of Brasilia, the video through the newspaper is released. The journalist had asked Bolsonaro to explain the Brazilian media reports that Fabrício Queiroz, who has known the president since 1980, and his wife, deposits of almost $16,000 to Michelle Bolsonaro the bank account between 2011 and 2017. Queiroz was He arrested in June as part of an investigation of corruption by the authorities in the state of Rio de Janeiro to Flávio Bolsonaro, the eldest son of the president. The probe refers to a scheme suspected of embezzlement and money laundering as time Flávio in the state parliament, where he served 2003-2019 service. Queiroz has worked as a consultant for Flávio for a bit ‘of that time and investigators say large amounts of money moving in and out of his account in 2017, the system can be connected. Flávio, now a senator, denounced the investigation as politically motivated attack on her family. Queiroz attorney called his arrest “totally useless.” Brazilian media reported earlier in August that investigators have uncovered new evidence of payments from Queiroz Michelle Bolsonaro had that contradict previously given explanations for operations. The question “President Bolsonaro because your wife Michelle received [$15,800] Fabrício Queiroz?” Soon he went viral on Sunday after addressing journalists O Globo as prominent figures of Brazilian culture, media and the president tweet politics, including YouTuber Felipe Neto and music legend Caetano Veloso. Overall, the question was repeated more than 1 million times online, according to BBC Brasil. The president did not respond directly, but a tweet questions Monday morning accused of O Globo of bias against him. The allegations surrounding his family, have a political controversy source Bolsonaro for the presidency on a campaign promise elite corruption between Brazil eradicate. He faces crises on several other fronts. The Supreme Court will consider complaints from former minister Sergio Moro Justice that the President abused his power to intrude in the federal police. Bolsonaro when COVID-19 processor, which has dismissed as “small influence,” has galvanized the political and public opposition to his leadership. The president and his wife both tested positive for the virus in July after months of public measures of social distancing and resist wearing masks. Despite this controversy, although it published a survey revealed that on August 14 Bolsonaro approval ratings have reached the highest level since his term in January 2019. After launching the national Datafolha pollster, 37% of respondents saw its government how big or good, compared with 32% in June. Only 34% saw his administration as bad or terrible, out of 10 points from a month earlier. Analysts in September the rise in popularity until dispersements emergency by the Brazilian government, which has been a lifeline to the poor in a country still struggling with the effects of a 2015-2016 economic crisis that began when the pandemic. “It ‘difficult, the effects of the Crown Emergency content on voters lives be underestimated”, says Gustavo Ribeiro, a political analyst and founder of the English language site The Brazilian political relationship. “For 14 million people, it has been the only source of income than in the recent past.” Because in September it expires the program that tens of billions of dollars it cost, but Bolsonaro said on August 19 that the smaller payments until the end of 2020 Rodrigo Soares, could be extended professor of Brazilian public policy at Columbia University, l ‘ Influence of mounting scandals tells his political base, have the president of the family is unlikely, which makes up about a third of Brazilian voters. “It ‘s become clear that allegations of corruption actually did not bite his main supporters,” he says.
Picture copyright by Alexandre Schneider -Getty images “Among those who do not believe that the [President] should corruption agenda has always been the main thing.”