Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday accused his political opponents and the press of deliberately "deceiving" citizens about the dangers of the new Corona virus, as Latin American countries prepare for an expected rise in the number of deaths from the epidemic.
Although the "Covid-19" epidemic has claimed the lives of more than 16,000 people worldwide, and it appears that it may impose heavy losses on Latin America in the coming weeks, as many countries on the continent close the borders to limit the damage, Jair Polsonaro has resisted Such crackdowns, and "hysteria" rejected the media with the virus, which he described as a "small flu".
In a television interview, on Sunday evening, local time, the Brazilian president again reduced the seriousness of the epidemic, attacking governors of major states including Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, which mandated residents to stay in their homes and quarantined.
"People will soon see that they have fallen victim to the deception of these rulers and most of the media when it comes to the new Corona virus," Bolsonaro said, as health officials announced the death toll in Brazil to 25 and 15,466 cases with the virus.
Bolsonaro claimed that the wave of protests, which entered its sixth night on Sunday, was part of a media-backed plot to topple him, and said, "It is a shameful campaign and a massive and ridiculous campaign against the head of state. They want to force me to resign wherever possible."
Bolsonaro, who has faced mounting criticism in his country for his slackness in dealing with the outbreak of the new Corona virus, initially described the epidemic as "pure imagination," according to the Guardian newspaper.
It is noteworthy that, on Monday, two opinion polls showed widespread dissatisfaction with the behavior of Brazilian President Bolsonaro, where a poll in the city of São Paulo, conducted by the Brazilian "EPOP" Foundation, revealed that 48 percent of the city's residents consider that "his administration is now bad or terrible". ".
Another poll, conducted by the "datafolha" group, said that 51 percent of wealthy Brazilians and 46 percent of those with university education expressed dissatisfaction with his handling of the new Corona virus crisis.
The political commentator in the conservative Estado de São Paulo newspaper, Eliane Cantanhide, said that Bolsonaro's support has not completely collapsed, adding, "We have to realize that many Bolsonaro supporters are still supporting him ... I have friends with university degrees, lawyers and diplomats, who believe Whatever he says, "noting that" the stronghold of his supporters and supporters is still very strong. "
"But others, who voted for him in 2018, are becoming less supportive, as they are beginning to see clearly that something is wrong and that the president lives in a parallel world," said Cantanhide. "If presidential elections are held today, there is a great chance to defeat Bolsonaro."
The strange thing is that Bolsonaro, who considers the Corona epidemic a mere hoax by the media and an attempt to topple him, underwent medical tests to find out if he contracted the new Coronavirus after his government’s Communications Minister Fabio Waggarten was infected with the virus more than two weeks ago, after a trip to Florida during which they met the President The American Donald Trump.
However, on Friday, the Bolsonaro Facebook page said that medical tests had confirmed the Brazilian President's lack of the new Corona virus, and Bolsonaro said he had been examined twice and that the results were negative about the Corona virus, but it was confirmed that 14 people who were with him on a trip to Florida American about two weeks ago, as confirmed by the National Security Adviser to Polsonaro, Minister of Mining and Energy and President of the country’s Senate, with the virus.
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