The deputy and national treasurer of the Workers’ Party (PT, progressive-globalist), Márcio Macedo, has submitted to Brazil’s Lower House a legislative project to prohibit the “political” use of the national symbols omnipresent in the demonstrations in favor of Jair Bolsonaro.
However, Macedo has argued that the objective of this proposal is to “save” the use of the flag, thus avoiding its “wear and tear” and “trivialization”.
Macedo has said that the “unnecessary” use of national symbols by “political factions” can cause these emblems that unite all Brazilians to become “signs of division.”
“This is what we have seen lately in the elections when certain groups have used national symbols to generate division among Brazilians, spread hatred, discord, and false news, even to make an apology for Nazism, in whose defeat Brazil heroically participated in European soil,” Macedo has said.
Lula da Silva already criticized Bolsonaro for the “political use” of these symbols, accusing him of having “abandoned” the Brazilian people, and encouraged the left to re-appropriate all these signs.