Release of Bolsonaro spending records shows love of high living and … ice-cream - The Guardian

Brazil’s caller authorities has released the idiosyncratic spending accounts of the erstwhile president Jair Bolsonaro, revealing the far-right leader’s evident penchant for costly hotels, large meals retired – and ice-cream.

Bolsonaro, who lost his re-election bid successful October, erstwhile boasted helium did not retreat “a azygous penny” from the firm recognition cards fixed to him and his closest advisers.

Although helium slapped a 100-year prohibition connected publishing his spending records, the caller authorities of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva connected Thursday revealed the records of the past 4 presidencies dating backmost to 2003.

The spending was breached down by date, amount, sanction of wherever the wealth was spent, and the class of the institution being paid. The immense bulk of spending was connected hotels and food.

Nine of the 10 biggest outlays made during Bolsonaro’s presidency were astatine a edifice successful Guarujá, wherever the erstwhile service skipper liked to walk weekends off. The firm cards were besides utilized successful a favored shop, pharmacies, restaurants and dozens of trips to ice-cream parlours. (Around £1,300 was spent connected crystal cream.)

The database is dotted with oddities, with O Globo reporting Bolsonaro and his squad spent a luck connected 1 azygous time buying 659 takeaway meals and 2,964 sandwiches astatine a edifice successful Roraima state.

More than 12,000 reais (almost £2,000) was spent successful 1 sitting astatine a steak restaurant; 25,000 reais was enactment connected the tab astatine a hamburger edifice successful the bluish authorities of Ceará; and much than 50,000 reais was handed implicit astatine a Rio de Janeiro bakery the time earlier Bolsonaro took portion successful a motorcycle rally there, according to breakdowns successful the Brazilian media.

The firm cards are expected to beryllium utilized for question expenses and tiny oregon urgent purchases, but wealth was besides spent connected hunting and fishing, sports equipment, sheets and bedding, and bottled gas.

Although Bolsonaro’s spending has travel nether scrutiny, his full outlay of 32 cardinal reais, erstwhile adjusted for inflation, is little than Lula’s successful some his archetypal 2 presumption betwixt 2003 and 2011, and little than his successor Dilma Rousseff.

The Publica bureau said 1 imaginable crushed for the discrepancy was that immoderate of Bolsonaro’s spending remained hidden down secrecy rules and had not yet been published.