Chamber President Repudiates Bolsonaro, Says Brazil Will Defeat Authoritarianism

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – After politicians, authorities, and civil society representatives repudiated President Jair Bolsonaro’s speech at a pro-dictatorship rally on Sunday, April 19th, Rodrigo Maia also expressed his views.

On Twitter, the Chamber president said he stood by Democracy to win the war against the coronavirus.

“The whole world is united against the coronavirus. In Brazil, we need to fight against the coronavirus and the authoritarianism virus. It’s more laborious, but we will win. On behalf of the Chamber of Deputies, I repudiate any action advocating the dictatorship, violating the Constitution”.
– Rodrigo Maia (@RodrigoMaia) April 19th, 2020

“To win this war against the corovirus, we need order, democratic discipline and solidarity with our fellow man.”
– Rodrigo Maia (@RodrigoMaia) April 19th, 2020

“Advocating dictatorship is encouraging disorder. It’s flirting with chaos. For it is the Democratic Rule of Law that affords Brazil a legal order able to drive the country forward with transparency and social justice”.
– Rodrigo Maia (@RodrigoMaia) April 19th, 2020

“We have no time to waste on coup rhetoric. We urgently need to continue helping the most impoverished, those who are sick waiting for treatment in ICUs and work to preserve jobs. There is no way out of democracy.”
– Rodrigo Maia (@RodrigoMaia) April 19th, 2020