Former VP and now Senator Hamilton Mourão (Republicans) said that Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's government wants to treat the military as "second-class citizens.
The senator's speech is a response to the PT party's project to bar active military personnel from political positions.
"The legislation is obvious: if the military is going to run for elective office, he will have to join a political party and take a leave of absence," said Mourão in an interview published in the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper on Sunday, 19th.
"Ah, an active military cannot hold . . .
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