December 13, 2021

10:12

Luís Henrique Oliveira – Cenarium Magazine

MANAUS – Known behind the scenes of politics by the strong personality and, sometimes, harsh, Senator Eduardo Braga (MDB-AM) attacked the Minister of the Government Secretariat of the Presidency, Flavia Arruda, during a phone call. The leader of the MDB in the Senate complained, after having parliamentary amendments denied by the Planalto Palace. The information was revealed, this Sunday, 12, by the column of journalist Lauro Jardim, in the newspaper O GLOBO.

According to Jardim, who has more than 30 years of profession, the amendments, which did not have the value and destination informed, had been promised by the Planalto Palace, but were not released. In a phone call to Flávia Arruda, Braga would not have liked the denial and would have mistreated the minister. “Braga extrapolated. Flávia didn’t hold back. Crying, she passed the phone call to Ciro Nogueira, the Chief of Staff, who was watching the scene next to the minister, to try to resolve the situation.

The minister commands the secretariat, which has the status of a ministry and takes care of articulations of interest to the Planalto Palace. Flavia took office in the Government Secretariat in April of this year, replacing General Luiz Eduardo Ramos. According to political writers in Brasilia, her performance in Congress became the main reason for her nomination to the ministry. In the Chamber of Deputies, Flavia aligned herself with the government and voted in favor of projects considered important.

No answers

After the repercussion of the case revealed in Lauro Jardim’s column, CENARIUM sent a message to the senator’s press office asking about the content of the phone call to Flavia Arruda, as well as asking about which amendments Eduardo Braga would be referring to, but until the publication of this article, there was no answer.

Attacks are common

In May this year, several sites reported that Braga had mistreated an employee who was taking documents to the senator during a live broadcast on a social network. At the time, the politician was doing a live broadcast, while giving an interview on the phone, and asked his employee to show the first phase of the document, when he got angry, when he realized that the woman did not know what he requested at the time.

Braga scolded the employee, covering the phone with his hand so that the embarrassing situation would not be heard during the interview. Irritated, the senator questioned: “Without knowing what the first phase is, first the order of the factors changes the product. Ask what the first phase is,” he

In September 2014, the Federal Public Ministry in Amazonas (MPF/AM) forwarded to the then Attorney General of the Republic, Rodrigo Janot, a representation against Senator Eduardo Braga (PMDB-AM). At the time, the politician from Amazonas was a candidate for the government of Amazonas. Together with former federal lawmaker Sabino Castelo Branco (PTB-AM), Braga was accused of assaulting an amateur photographer during a campaign rally in the municipality of Maraã, in the Alto Solimões region, in the interior of Amazonas state.

The information was reported in the newspaper O GLOBO. The photographer Joel Reis da Silva registered the incident with the MPF and requested the agency to “protect his life”. According to the tabloid, Joel accused the senator of stopping the car he was in and giving him a tie around the neck, asking “at whose orders” he would be taking the pictures. The photographer also says that Eduardo Braga tried to take his camera and was then surrounded by the senator’s aides and federal deputy Sabino Castelo Branco. See more at the link.

As justification, the senator even stated, at the time, that the video circulating on the Internet, which shows the moment of the aggression, had been edited, hiding the end, in which the photographer can keep his equipment and the cameraman the material captured. To the MPF, Joel said that his camera “was all damaged, no longer serving any purpose”.