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Judi Lynn

(160,623 posts)
Mon Mar 30, 2020, 03:28 PM Mar 2020

Governors Threaten to Defy Bolsonaro If He Signs Decree Allowing People to Return to Work

Source: Folha (Brazil)

Governors Threaten to Defy Bolsonaro If He Signs Decree Allowing People to Return to Work
President said on Sunday that he would like to edit measure to reopen trade across the country
Mar.30.2020 1:00PM

Renato Onofre
Talita Fernandes
BRASLIA
Governors are considering suing the government if President Jair Bolsonaro fulfills his will and signs a decree to allow sectors of the economy back to work.

Bolsonaro said on Sunday (29) that he is thinking about allowing people in need to return to work.

State officials said they were indignant at the attitude of the president, who this Sunday contradicted the guidance of the Ministry of Health and circulated in Braslia greeting supporters.



President Jair Bolsonaro at the Palcio do Alvorada. Foto: Reproduo Facebook

The assessment made in a WhatsApp group with governors from the Northeast is that the president continues to "inflate" the fire instead of sitting at the table and leading the country in the face of the challenges of the pandemic.

"He has to stop making politics, stop making intrigue, and assume the role that the majority of the people gave him as president of the Republic. It is up to the federal government to lead this process and not continue to feed the crisis," said the governor of Bahia, Rui Costa (PT).

Read more: https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2020/03/governors-threaten-to-defy-bolsonaro-if-he-signs-decree-allowing-people-to-return-to-work.shtml?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsen

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Governors Threaten to Defy Bolsonaro If He Signs Decree Allowing People to Return to Work (Original Post) Judi Lynn Mar 2020 OP
States Rights! IronLionZion Mar 2020 #1
Didn't this "guy" shake hands with trump and he was infected....................... turbinetree Mar 2020 #2

IronLionZion

(45,528 posts)
1. States Rights!
Mon Mar 30, 2020, 03:43 PM
Mar 2020

Even in the US, the states rights folks haven't spoken up in defense of the actions Dem governors have taken to protect their people.

Similar stuff happened in India where liberal states implemented quarantine and shutdown before conservative states. Probably because liberals believe in Science and conservatives think God will save them or something.

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