Brazilian business people close to Bolsonaro accused of being “coup plotters”

Brazilian senator Randolfe Rodigues, the leader of the opposition to the Bolsonaro government in the Senate, denounced before the Supreme Court a group of businessmen close to the president, Jair Bolsonaro, whom he accused of supporting a coup if Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wins the October elections.

Rodrigues, of the Rede de Sustentabilidade (Sustainability Network, center-left) party, called on the STF to investigate the businessmen and break the secrecy of communications in the case led by Judge Alexandre de Moraes for “anti-democratic acts.”

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The parliamentarian, a member of the coalition that supports Lula’s candidacy, from the Worker’s Party (PT, left) cited an article from the Metrópoles portal that had access to conversations within the WhatsApp group called Entrepreneurs and Politics.

“I prefer a coup before the return of the PT, I prefer it a million times, and nobody is going to stop doing business with Brazil as happens with various dictatorships in the world,” wrote businessman José Koury.

Among the members of the aforementioned group is Luciano Hang, owner of the Havan business chain and close to President Bolsonaro.

This week, the president, belonging to the Liberal Party (PL, right), launched his candidacy for reelection by inviting a military act on September 7 in Rio de Janeiro, an event in which there may be proclamations against the constitutional order.

For his part, presidential candidate Ciro Gomes, of the Democratic Labor Party (PDT, center-left), proposed that the public “boycott” companies and products linked to this group of entrepreneurs.

RANDOLFE RODRIGUES

Randolph Frederich Rodrigues Alves, known as Randolfe Rodrigues, is a Brazilian journalist and politician. Since 2011, Rodrigues has served as a Senator for the state of Amapá, one of the poorest in the country.

He is the leader of the opposition to the Bolsonaro government in the Federal Senate. It was the most voted in the history of the state of Amapá in the 2010 Elections.

During Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment process, he defended that, if it were for the whole work, he would also have to remove Vice-President Michel Temer. In the 2018 elections, he was re-elected senator.

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