Senator Major Olimpio Threatens to Quit PSL If Bolsonaro Reconnects
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Senator Major Olimpio (PSL- Social Liberal Party) has threatened to leave the PSL should there be a rapprochement between the party and President Jair Bolsonaro. “If this happens, I will miss the party very much. BYE DARLINGS!”, he wrote on social media.
In the post, the politician made a reference to a story in the O Globo newspaper “reporting that Bolsonaro is seeking a rapprochement with the PSL to broaden his base, that he called Bivar, and that the party vice-president, Antônio de Rueda, and Flávio Bolsonaro are putting together the rapprochement, made me want to vomit,” he wrote on his Twitter.
“I said in the PSL congressional group: if this happens, I will miss the party very much. BYE DARLINGS!”
— Major Olimpio (@majorolimpio) July 11th, 2020
Bolsonaro was elected President while a member of the PSL but cancelled his membership in the party in 2019 to try to create a new one, called Aliança Pelo Brasil (Alliance for Brazil).
In April this year, the PSL filed a motion in Congress to impeach the President due to the incident of the switch of command in the Federal Police. The motion was filed by the PSL leader in the Chamber of Deputies, Joice Hasselman, a former ally of the Bolsonaro family.
Source: UOL
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