Bolsonaro used a government card to buy US$111,000 in bakeries

The ex-president Brazilian Jair Bolsonaro spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in bakeries, popular restaurants and ice cream parlors during his four years in office, according to data released by the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

In all, Bolsonaro spent 27.6 million reais (about $5.3 million) with the government’s corporate credit card. However, said amount would be less than what his predecessors spent.

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This information surprised citizens due to the abundance of superfluous expenses with public resources, some of them made in McDonald’s stores and even pet stores.

49.5% of the expenses were made in hotels, including one in the Guarujá spa where he used to rest during carnival and to which he paid the equivalent of $280,770.

Food expenses represented 19.9% ​​of the total, including an expense -of about 21,020 dollars- in a restaurant in the Amazonian state of Roraima that sells lunches at popular prices.

The list also includes 581,000 reais ($111,730) in bakeries, 8,600 reais ($1,654) in ice cream parlors, 408,000 reais (about $78,461) in fishmongers, 21,700 reais ($4,173) in party decorations and 678,000 reais (about $130,384) in a “gourmet market” in Brasilia.

In a message through his Telegram channel, Bolsonaro said that “besides having less expenses” that in the governments of Lula (2003-2010) and Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016) the corporate credit card “He paid for part of the rescue of the Brazilians in Wuhan (China)” at the beginning of the pandemic.

The ex-governor published his message accompanied by a comparative table of his expenses with the corporate credit card with those of other governments and which circulated in media such as Poder360 and CNN Brasil.

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Politicians’ criticisms of the “extravagant” expenses were not long in coming especially because during his government the far-right leader, whose main electoral banner was always the fight against corruption, criticized Lula’s alleged abuses in the use of corporate cards of the Presidency.

“In a country where half the population lives in food insecurity, Bolsonaro felt at ease spending millions with his corporate card on luxury hotels and sweets at the bakery”affirmed the deputy André Janones on Twitter.

The president of the pro-government Workers’ Party (PT), Gleisi Hoffmann, affirmed that the lifting of secrecy made it possible to know the “wasteful and strange” expenses of the former president, including 10 accounts of 9,000 reais (about 1,730 dollars) in 10 days in a row, in the same fast food place.

“Bolsonaro spent fortunes on a single hotel. With the amount he spent on that hotel, he could have paid for his lodging for eight years in a row”, tosigned the elected deputy Guilherme Boulos, leader of the leftist Socialism and Freedom Party (PSOL).

Boulos affirmed that the former president who called himself a “plain manIt turned out to be the “biggest vagrant and spendthrift in the country.”

Source: EFE