Are you prepared to pay DPVAT again, that mandatory insurance that you last paid for in 2020 and was later canceled by the Bolsonaro government, under the allegation that it was another registry office to favor insurance company lobbying? Well, it’s back. It was to be voted on yesterday in the Senate’s most important committee, the Constitution and Justice Committee, chaired by Davi Alcolumbre, who was president of the Senate. However, someone asked for a review and then the vote was transferred to the 8th. I keep thinking the following, they counted the number of votes that would have approved the DPVAT and there weren’t enough votes to approve it. So they postponed the vote. This was probably the reason, although other reasons may be alleged.
Fires in the Amazon
The lobby is strong and you, once again, will pay more and more fees, contributions, taxes. We pay for all of this to have good public services. And then we ask if there are good public services, for example, to protect the Amazon forest. I say this because numbers have now come out showing that this year fires grew by 154%, that is, fires in the Amazon more than doubled. According to INPE, there were 8,895 fires. We can even point out that many journalists do not know what a fire is. Fire outbreak is when the fire is starting and is soon put out. When it says fire outbreak, it means there is no more fire. But even so, the news also says that INPE counted 8,895 fires.
Freedom of expression
I would also like to comment that a judge ordered the arrest of a journalist from Pernambuco. Preventive arrest, because he reported on social media a judge and a lobby prosecutor who had promiscuous relationships with businessmen. Journalist Ricardo Antunes was not arrested because he was on vacation in Spain, but yesterday a judge at the Court of Justice of Pernambuco said that there is no reason for preventive detention, so the preventive detention order should be revoked. I would add article 5 of the Constitution, section 4, which says what freedom of thought is. Article 220 of the Constitution guarantees information and the article of the Penal Code compensates the person who has been slandered, offended or defamed from going to court for this. Now, preventive detention? The judge ordered preventive detention because the journalist refused to delete what he had said, to take back what he had said. He is so convinced of what journalist Arnaldo Antunes said, that he dared to resist and has now freed himself from prison when he returns from vacation in Spain. Freedom of expression is at stake everywhere.
Lula 3
And just to conclude, I would like to remind you that things are difficult for the government, including in relations with the presidents of the Chamber and the Senate. Something isn’t adding up with this new third-term Lula.
