Jair Bolsonaro, current president BrazilTuesday retracted some statements in which he hinted that a group of destitute Venezuelan minors involved in a social project in Brazil were involved in prostitution in the country.
The President assured that his words were taken out of context and noted that minors are “working” girls, distancing himself from his previous statements in which he slipped after witnessing a case of sexual exploitation.
Last Friday while participating in the podcast, Jair Bolsonaro used the Brazilian expression “draw the climate”, which is supposed to indicate that there is a desire for something, while slipping that it was witness in a sexual exploitation case.
Bolsonaro recounted how, after seeing a group of “pretty girls aged 14 or 15”, he asked to enter his house, where he ran into twenty of them, “all very well dressed”, in order to, in his words, “make a living”.
In them, the head of state, once again influencing the age of the girls and their perceived beauty, said that he was asking them why they all gathered on Saturday. “To make a living. Do you want this for your daughter?” – Said the President of Brazil during a conversation with the director of the podcast.
Since that interview excerpt began to circulate on the networks, there has been a small pre-election crisis within the Bolsonaro team, which even had to launch a series of commercials emphasizing that the Brazilian president is not a pedophile.
sharp criticism
Lula’s Workers’ Party (PT) president Glasey Hoffmann called Bolsonaro “lecherous” and “criminal” in a tweet, and Senator Randolph Rodriguez, the former president’s campaign coordinator, expressed his “disgust”.
Flavio Bolsonaro, the president’s son, assured that his father “has always been a strong fighter against paedophilia” and dismissed questions.
On the same Tuesday, it was announced that Brazilian First Lady Michel Bolsonaro and former Minister of Women’s Affairs Damares Alves met with community leaders of a social project that takes care of Venezuelan minors.
The episode was also used by the candidacy of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who posted a video he was finally ordered to film when the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) felt it was “decontextualizing” the president’s statements.
(According to Europa Press and AFP)
Source: RPP
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