Simone Tebet: 'Bolsonaro's homeland is not Brazil, it's a foreign land'
By
Marina Rossi
Slow-proofed and worth the wait. Worth its weight in flour.
Summary
Simone Tebet, former Planning and Budget Minister under Lula, has left the MDB party after 30 years to join the PSB, moved from Brasília to São Paulo, and is running for a Senate seat representing São Paulo. In this interview with BBC News Brasil, she makes a strong statement against the Bolsonaro family, saying their homeland is not Brazil but a foreign one. She refuses to step aside from her Senate candidacy in favor of other candidates like Marina Silva or Fernando Haddad, positioning herself as a representative of the "broad front" or "democratic field" rather than the center-left.
Key quotes
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Ela deixou o Ministério do Planejamento e Orçamento, que comandava desde o início do terceiro mandato do presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT)
Os movimentos foram todos 'acertados' previamente, como ela afirma nesta entrevista à BBC News Brasil, para disputar uma vaga no Senado por São Paulo
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