The President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, on Wednesday dismissed thirteen other members of the Armed Forces who worked in the Institutional Security Cabinet (GSI), one of the most questioned offices after the coup attacks of January 8, bringing to 53 the number of military personnel dismissed.
On Tuesday, President Lula once again revealed the distrust he feels towards a part of the Armed Forces by dismissing forty military personnel who were working in the security of the Alvorada Palace, the official residence, after he assured the media that he was convinced of the «complicity» of a part of the forces of order during the assault.
A few days after the violent events occurred in the Esplanade of the Ministries, Lula assured that the doors of the Planalto Palace were opened from the inside and said that «no one suspected of being a Bolsonarista» would be left without being removed.
On this occasion, five of the thirteen military personnel dismissed were working at the Representation Office in Rio de Janeiro, while seven others were working at the Secretariat of Security and Presidential Coordination, and one more at the Administrative Division of the GSI.
In spite of the distrust shown in recent days by a large part of Lula’s government and the Workers’ Party (PT), the head of the Civil House, Rui Costa, has denied that the latest dismissals are related to these misgivings, since they are rather part of a mere «rotation».
«It has nothing to do with distrust. Even in the military areas we have changed military personnel, so it is natural that in the other advisors there will be a rotation among people. In the military positions there will be changes to give opportunity to other people who have the technical capacity to exercise those positions», said Costa.
«It’s nothing new, there’s no mystery about it. Or did anyone think that when the new government trains it was going to keep the previous government’s advisors? It is not reasonable that this would be so,» he has argued to the press, reports ‘O Globo’.
Costa, one of the men closest to President Lula, has personally gone to the Ministry of Defense to meet with its head, also questioned José Múcio, and the three heads of the Armed Forces, to bring positions closer after the coup acts of ten days ago.
The proposal of Lula’s government is to invest in the Armed Forces through both public and private companies in order to achieve a «modernization» on a par with the rest of the world’s nations. An initiative, Costa explained, already present in the campaign.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
