Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro and his wife, Michelle, will not receive their salary from the Liberal Party (PL) until they return from the United States, where they traveled two days before the inauguration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and, according to estimates by their allies, will stay for at least three months.
The president of the PL, Valdemar Costa, has been questioned by several sectors of the party for Bolsonaro’s absence from the public sphere since he was defeated in the second round of the October 30 elections and has been pressured to take action on the matter.
Thus, Bolsonaro will stop receiving 39,200 reais (about 6,950 euros) every month for the duration of his stay in Florida, where he traveled accompanied by his wife and their young daughter, details the newspaper ‘O Globo’.
However, even if he returns, the monthly payment is not guaranteed since the PL depends on a decision of the president of the Superior Electoral Court, Judge Alexandre de Moraes, to give viability to its financing, after the sanction imposed for electoral irregularities after the second round.
The PL’s accounts are currently blocked since the TSE fined them and two other forces allied to bolsonarismo, Progresistas (PP) and Republicanos, considering that they acted in bad faith by litigating with an audit in which, without evidence, they questioned the validity of the elections.
De Moraes fined the collation 22.9 million reais (4.1 million euros) – although Republicans and PP have disowned the audit claiming that it was done on their behalf without consulting them – but released some funding to pay the December payrolls, but not Bolsonaro’s.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
