Jair Bolsonaro’s PL filed a request for the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) to investigate alleged intervention in the Ministry of Defense.
In a speech last week, Minister José Múcio Monteiro said that “ideological issues” prevented a tender between the Brazilian government and an Israeli company.
The federal government withdrew Brazil’s ambassador to Israel after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu considered President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) “persona non grata” in the Middle Eastern country.
In a request submitted to the PGR, federal deputy Júlia Zanatta (PL-SC) states that Múcio’s statement is “worrying”, since the Federal Constitution values “non-discrimination”.
For the parliamentarian, the statement that administrative decisions were impacted by personal ideologies, and not by technical criteria, weakens “trust in public institutions and compromises the integrity of the bidding system”.
“The conduct violates the principle of legality that governs public administration, which requires that all actions of public agents be based on objective norms and facts, and not on subjective or ideological considerations”, he considers.
Still on Friday (11) Lula ruled out any possibility of dismissal.
as to CNN showed, the purchase of armored vehicles from Israel opposed the Ministry of Defense and members of the PT, the president’s party.
For opponents of the purchase, the assessment is that it is not reasonable for the Brazilian government to acquire military equipment from a country whose military action in the Gaza Strip is criticized by Lula.
