Moro sees Bolsonaro and PT both denying reality
Former Justice Minister Sergio Moro said on Tuesday that President Jair Bolsonaro and the Workers' Party (PT), arch-rivals, are similar for the fact that, in the former judge's opinion, they both deny the reality. Mr. Moro made the comparison during an interview with Valor streamed live.Having been out of the federal government for almost two months, Mr. Moro evaded three times questions about whether he had electoral intentions for 2022. He only said that he wanted to participate in the public debate. Yet he indicated he was positioning himself as alternative, in the free-market spectrum, to Bolsonarism. By pointing out that his criticism of the government had "constructive" nature, Mr. Moro made clear what he believes sets him apart from the president: the anti-corruption agenda.
Asked about his opinion today of the alternatives that Brazil had in the runoff of the 2018 presidential elections, Mr. Moro made the comparison between Mr. Bolsonaro and the PT of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff. "For the country, in 2018 it would be very difficult to put the Workers' Party candidate when they, like the president, deny the reality. It wouldn't work either," he said.
The former minister said that the PT even today denies embezzlement at Petrobras. "I can assure that in 2018 I didn't vote for the Workers' Party. I had no conditions. If you don't admit the mistakes, how will you recover the credibility?"
Mr. Moro then used the same reasoning to analyze Mr. Bolsonaro's actions. "If you don't admit there is a pandemic, if you don't admit the severity of this pandemic, you seek refuge in fantasies, then you are unable to advance. You have to construct public policies based on reality."
About his stint as minister of Mr. Bolsonaro, Mr. Moro complained that he had no support for actions to fight corruption. He mentioned how he went alone to Congress to defend a constitutional amendment proposal (PEC) that enforces sentences right after a conviction is confirmed by a review court. "I felt I was almost alone in fighting corruption in the government," he said. "The government didn't engage in the anti-corruption agenda."
The former minister stressed the "constructive" nature of his criticism. In his opinion, the Bolsonaro administration has opportunity to show it fights corruption if it pushes for the passage of that PEC or, for example, if the president nominates a person identified with this agenda to the Federal Supreme Court (STF). "The...
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