Lula said that being overweight is bad and that, therefore, the Minister of Justice rides a bicycle
Netizens against the president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) criticized this Thursday (16.Mar.2023) the joking comment made by the minister Flavio Dino (PSB).
At an event at the Planalto Palace on Wednesday (March 15), Lula said that obesity caused “as bad as hunger” is that, “that’s why”, Dino rode a bicycle. For opponents, it was a speech “fatphobic”.
Lula’s comments were made at the ceremony that launched the National Program for Public Security with Citizenship, a project that deals with security with a social bias.
“Obesity causes as much harm as hunger. And that’s why Flávio Dino is riding his bike, because he knows he’s going to need the State to take care of this disease with great care”, said Lula at the time.
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Flávio Dino usually makes fun of his own physical form in reserved appointments and political meetings. Allies point to the practice as a way to break the ice in formal situations.
Even so, Lula was criticized on the internet. Many cited the former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and stated that the criticism would be more intense if the former president had said the same thing.
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