Ex-Minister Weintraub announces his return to Brazil and adopts electoral stance
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – In the United States since mid-2020, former Education Minister Abraham Weintraub published on a video on social networks announcing his return to Brazil on Saturday, January 15.
In the 40 second video, Weintraub uses a combative electoral discourse, particularly against São Paulo governor João Doria.
In the video, the ex-minister uses images to criticize the lockdown, associating health restrictions with the dictatorship, uses images of police actions, and, for a few seconds, the image of Doria during one of his press conferences.
A lockdown was never implemented in São Paulo during the pandemic – only tight restrictions – and the current governor of São Paulo is a presidential pre-candidate for 2022.
A member of the most ideological wing of the government, the ex-minister may run against current Minister of Infrastructure Tarcisio de Freitas, the person President Jair Bolsonaro has been testing among his supporters for the post.
Appointed by the government as executive director of the World Bank since he left the Ministry of Education, Weintraub is not yet affiliated to any political party.
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