The governor of Sao Paulo and former Minister of Infrastructure, Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas, has assured that the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, «will do his best» for the country «until the end of his term».
Questioned about Bolsonaro’s silence after his defeat in the elections, Gomes de Freitas acknowledged that he «understands the situation» the president is going through, since he has had to face «very hard crises».
He also praised the result obtained by Bolsonaro in the elections and praised him as «the great leader of the right» with «a legacy of 59 million votes», according to the newspaper ‘O Globo’.
«He made senators, he made governors, he made federal deputies. I think we cannot consider this result as a defeat at all», said the former minister with Bolsonaro until he resigned from the post at the end of March to run for the state elections in Sao Paulo.
Gomes de Freitas has been proclaimed the winner in the Sao Paulo elections, where with 55 percent of the votes he has been designated as the new governor ahead of his rival, Fernando Haddad, of the Workers’ Party (PT).
Bolsonaro, for his part, lost the presidential elections held this Sunday in which he was running for reelection. The president was narrowly beaten by his rival, former president and PT candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who will begin his third term in office in January.
