"I didn't find it controversial," Heleno downplays Bolsonaro's statement.
"I didn't find it controversial. I don't see anything wrong with the statement," said the Chief Minister of the Institutional Security Cabinet (GSI), Augusto Heleno, who is part of the group of ministers from the Armed Forces; the minister is acting as a firefighter to try to contain the new crisis created by the president himself.
247 - Faced with a new crisis created once again by President Jair Bolsonaro himself, the military members of the government began acting as firefighters to minimize the damage caused by the assertion that democracy only exists when the Armed Forces allow it.
After the vice president, General Hamilton MourãoAfter Bolsonaro was said to have been "misinterpreted," it was the turn of the Chief Minister of the Institutional Security Cabinet (GSI), Augusto Heleno, to speak about the matter.
The minister said on Thursday (7) that he saw no controversy in the president's statement and that the Armed Forces are the "bulwark of democracy and freedom".
"I didn't find it controversial. I don't see anything wrong with the statement. He was giving a speech to commemorate the 111th anniversary of the Marine Corps, and he said what everyone knows: the Armed Forces are the bulwark of democracy and freedom. Historically, in all countries of the world," said Heleno, according to information from G1.