Following in the footsteps of Trump, Bolsonaro adopts confusion as a method.
Brazilian journalist Bernardo Mello Franco, a columnist for O Globo, says that the President of the Republic is imitating Donald Trump and adopting confusion as a method. "On the fourth day of his term, Jair Bolsonaro gave a sample of his potential to produce crises. The captain surprised his own team by announcing that, 'unfortunately,' he had signed a decree raising the Tax on Financial Operations (IOF). He added that he would reduce income tax for those who earn more. The news caused an uproar in the political sphere and the financial market."
247 - Brazilian journalist Bernardo Mello Franco, a columnist for O Globo, says that the President of the Republic is imitating Donald Trump and adopting confusion as a method. "On the fourth day of his term, Jair Bolsonaro gave a sample of his potential to produce crises. The captain surprised his own team by announcing that, 'unfortunately,' he had signed a decree raising the Tax on Financial Operations (IOF). He added that he would reduce income tax for those who earn more. The news caused an uproar in the political sphere and the financial market."
However, the president was overruled by the Secretary of the Revenue Service, who holds a second-tier position in the government, the columnist points out.
Mello Franco points out that this was not the first setback for the new government, recalling that on the day of the inauguration, the Minister of the Civil House, Onyx Lorenzoni, said that the decision on the minimum wage adjustment would be postponed. "He was overridden that same night, when the amount was published in an extra edition of the Official Gazette."
The article recounts other blunders and contradictions made by the president and his ministerial team in the first days of his administration.