During his speech at the 17th National Health Conference, Lula also called Bolsonaro a denier and cited that people died “due to lack of care, denial, lack of vaccine, respirator.”
They died, he pointed out, “because this country, at some point, had a government that was a genocide putting into practice the most perverse attitude with respect to human beings,” he stressed.
According to the ex-unionist, “there will be a day in this country when Covid-19 will be studied in more depth and there will be a day when someone will be judged for irresponsibility and carelessness in the treatment by SUS (Unified Health System)”.
He insisted, without mentioning a name, that this subject will face the courts as “someone who decided to challenge science, scientists, researchers, the WHO (World Health Organization).”
For Lula, in that administration, in an obvious allusion to Bolsonaro, “nothing was respected and, in addition, he forced Army and Armed Forces laboratories to produce chloroquine to help deceive the Brazilian people. That will not go unpunished in the history of Brazilian health”, he stressed.
According to the former labor leader, “fascism is still loose in the streets of the country” and he called to defeat it so that Brazil “has love instead of hate” and encourages “peace instead of war.”
Lula repeated again that the denier, who governed the South American giant, has to assume responsibility for at least 300,000 of the 700,000 lives lost in the pandemic.
During his address, the mechanical ex-torner also noted that since January 1 “this country returned to being democratic, the people spoke again.”
He clarified that, in this government, his compatriots can complain, claim, disagree “because we have two ears to listen to people’s complaints and not just to hear their applause.”
Bolsonaro accumulates investigations and judicial processes that range from offenses against the elective system, the disastrous performance during Covid-19, to the coup acts of January 8 in this capital.
Last week, the Superior Electoral Court disqualified the far-right politician for eight years for abuse of power and improper use of public media during the past elections.
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