Bolsonaro exonerates PF director and creates new crisis in his government

Bolsonaro exonerates this Friday morning (24) the director of the federal police (Brazil's largest investigative body) to find a name he trusts, but that was not the only thing Bolsonaro did, he did not talk to Moro at the time of the decision.

The former minister was perplexed by the attitude of the president of the republic, who had told him at the beginning of his inauguration that he would have carte blanche to act within the PF.

With this behavior, in the midst of the biggest global pandemic (coronavirus) that has ever occurred in recent decades, Bolsonaro provokes yet another crisis in a row, within his own Government.

As stated by Joice Hasselmann, who is a former leader of the government in Congress, the PF reached the 'nucleus of financiers of the digital militias'. She said that part of them funded these pro-military coup movements. Bolsonaro wants to abstain from future problems.

Bolsonaro exonerates director and causes crisis

Yet another crisis provoked by the president himself

In the midst of a terrible coronavirus pandemic that has already killed more than 3,300 people in Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro created a new political crisis by dismissing this morning the director general of the Federal Police, Maurício Valeixo, Moro's trusted man.

According to Bolsonaro's mistaken decision to replace Valeixo, Moro had already said that he would leave the government. But that did not intimidate Bolsonaro. This Friday, the exoneration of director-ggeneral was published in the Official Gazettel.

Bolsonaro wants to have a voice over the command of the corporation and absolute control over everything. Since last year, he has been trying to oust Valeixo and have influence over investigations, but has been blocked by moves by his minister and the PF itself.

But this time, the rush to “get free”, as described by a palatial advisor to the director general of the PF, would have a very clear motivation.