In the opinion of Economy Minister Paulo Guedes, the claim that France is “indifferent” to the Brazilian government has received more repercussions on social networks and in the media than the reaction of the French government.
French authorities this Friday (12) continue to ignore the minister’s notorious vulgar language regarding Paris, while Thursday’s demonstrations in defense of democracy are considered a “serious warning” to Bolsonaro’s government.
Some netizens are taking advantage of Paulo Guedes’ shyness in France to criticize President Emmanuel Macron’s foreign policy and pointing out that developing countries no longer accept being treated as subordinates.
Others say they can’t wait for Brazil to turn the page on the far-right government on October 2nd, when the first round of elections will take place. “Brazil can no longer be ruled by cretins,” one French netizen wrote on Twitter.
On social media, many French criticized Guedes’s lack of education and diplomacy, saying “this is not a language a minister of state can use”.
At the opening of the Brazilian Bar and Restaurant Association National Congress on Tuesday, Guedes told attendees about a conversation he had with a French minister who was critical of Brazil’s environmental policy and the fires in the Amazon.
Referring to the foreign trade data, he said that in 2000 Brazil traded with France and also China for 2 billion US dollars, today the trade with the French represents 7 billion US dollars, while with China it has increased to 120 billion US dollars.
“You’re becoming insignificant to us, you better be nice to us, or we’re going to go nuts and go to the other side,” Guedes said of his conversation with the French minister, whose name was not mentioned. .
Internet user says ‘Bolsonaro ministers are paid for rudeness’
Under Guedes’ video, a Frenchman commented, “You can be rude and ministering in the Bolsonaro government, and by the way, they are rewarded for rudeness.” Many noted that Guedes campaigned for “boss,” ranking second in polls behind former president Lula.
In another tweet, Bolsonaro’s inclusion in his team of authoritarian leaders would be concerned with “destroying Western democracies after failing with fake news and propaganda,” citing China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban. “Now they’re going to use guns,” said the Frenchman.
Some broadcasters of talk shows echoed Guedes’ conversation with guests. RMC radio, to talk In this film, where the point is to talk things out, an economist was behind the wheel on Thursday, Thomas Porcher, a member of a group of economists critical of “neoliberal orthodoxy.”
While noting that he does not have the slightest sympathy for the Bolsonaro government, Porcher also underlined that Guedes’ speech reflects what is happening around the world. “Developing people don’t want to keep their heads down anymore,” he noted.
“Brazil has relations with other countries, and the story of the G7 (a group of western powers) or few leaders telling others how the world should be organized is over,” Porcher said.
The host, who revived the discussion on RMC radio, said China and India had said the same thing to France “but in a more polite way”. Another participant defended Macron, saying that French Guiana, a piece of land in the Amazon, has the French president’s legitimacy to criticize the Amazon fires.
Since Bolsonaro took power and the fires in the Amazon escalated, France has blocked the implementation of the 2019 trade deal between Mercosur and the European Union.
Civil society union against Bolsonaro coup
This Friday, the French press repeated the reading of the letter in defense of democracy that took place at the USP Law School in São Paulo. Newspaper Le Figaro, conservative editorial line, He considered the contest “a serious warning two months before the election”. “Civil society and business came together to defend Brazilian democracy at a time of enormous risk,” he explains. Figaro.
This major French newspaper notes that businessmen seduced Bolsonaro’s 2018 election with his liberal economic program. According to the report, “Today, they fear above all the instability caused by the Brazilian president”.
HE releaseOpenly progressive, Bolsonaro made the headlines of his election campaign in Brazil, saying that “democracy is in danger” with his threats of a coup, the campaign against the electronic voting machine, and the September 7 call for an uprising.
Correspondent Chantal Rayes in Sao Paulo accompanied the reading of the letter at the USP Law School. In the same place, she recalled that on August 8, 1977, during the military dictatorship, a letter was read demanding the end of the dictatorship.
The reporter reported that among the supporters of 2022 are many personalities from different segments of society, from the banker Roberto Setúbal to João Pedro Stédile, the founder of the MST (Landless Workers Movement).
“Even the hesitant business community in Brazil eventually gave up,” he says. bookNoting that Fiesp also launched its own manifesto for democracy, signed by the banking sector and agribusiness associations that largely support the current government.
But the diary claims that Bolsonaro, who has 29% to 35% of voting intentions depending on the poll, can still beat Lula (38% to 47% of voting intentions). The PT’s advantage may be waning, he explains, when outreach, endorsed by the current president’s allies in Congress, begins to affect the poorest voters. release. Billionaire funds began to be distributed on August 8.
source: Noticias
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