Wrapped in an Israeli flag atop a sound truck, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro told a crowd attending São Paulo's March for Jesus during the Corpus Christi holiday, on Thursday, that Brazil faces a “spiritual war” and that evil would be “expelled from the government this year.”
Later that day, Solicitor General Jorge Messias — sent to represent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva — said the event was no place for a political rally, only to compare Flávio to Judas in the same breath.
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