The President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva -Marcelo Camargo/Agencia Brazil/d / DPA
The President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has dismissed by decree the administration of all Brazilian public media shops on account of their therapy of the takeover of the three public powers in Brasilia on January 8.
The resolution was adopted on Friday evening and consists of the appointment of journalist Kariane Costa as president of the Brazilian Communication Company (EBC), on which key media shops such because the Agencia Brasil information company, TV Brasil or the Radio station rely. National. The measure implies the opening of a transition and reorganization course of within the EBC that may final about 30 days, the Brazilian Presidency reported in a press release.
The Brazilian press highlights that the route of those media shops was nonetheless within the fingers of officers appointed by the earlier president, Jair Bolsonaro, whose supporters stormed Congress, the presidential palace and the seat of the Federal Supreme Court every week in the past.
It was exactly the protection of those occasions that might have been the set off for the adjustments, since whereas many of the Brazilian media referred to Bolsonaro’s supporters as “vandals” or “coup plotters”, the general public media maintained the time period “protesters”, Government sources quoted by the newspaper ‘Folha de Sao Paulo’ have reported.
Another supply defined that they feared much more radical protection by media shops run by folks near Bolsonaro and the attainable unfold of anti-democratic concepts and even technical sabotage to interrupt broadcasts and appearances by the Presidency.
The day after the assault on the three powers, the TV Brasil information broadcast statements by Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, son of the previous president, which was interpreted as a provocation by politicians from the ruling Workers’ Party (PT).