“Our enemy is not external, it is internal. It is not a fight of left against right, it is a fight of good against evil, and we are going to win“said the ultra-conservative president at the national meeting held in Brasilia by the Liberal Party (PL), referring to his possible rival in the October elections, former president Lula da Silva.
The event had initially been announced by the political force to which Bolsonaro, 67, joined in November as the launch of his candidacy, but its organizers reformulated the call due to warnings about a possible violation of electoral law. According to the official schedule, the campaign cannot start until August 16.
Instead, the PL announced the launch of a membership movement, aimed at “strengthening and broadening the Party’s electoral base” with the slogan “It is with him that I go”, along with images of Bolsonaro.
However, many of the fans who attended the event in the Brazilian capital wore shirts or badges with the legend “Bolsonaro 2022”.
“Sometimes It turns my stomach to have to play within the four lines (of the Magna Carta)but I swore, and not by word of mouth, to respect the Constitution,” the president acknowledged in his speech.
In addition, Bolsonaro rejected the polls that place former leftist president Lula da Silva ahead in voting intentions, who has not yet made his candidacy official.
“You have already heard that a lie repeated a thousand times becomes the truth. (But) I tell you that a lying poll published a thousand times will not make a president,” he said, to applause from those present.
According to the latest Datafolha poll released last Thursday, the leader of the PT (Partido de los Trabajadores) leads Bolsonaro, who accumulates 26%, with 43% of the intention to vote.
“The certainty of success is that I have an army by my side, made up of each one of you. We may lose some battles, but we will not lose the war,” Bolsonaro said.
Marco Aurélio Ferreira, a 59-year-old public employee who attended the event, is confident that Bolsonaro will get a second term: “I am certain. I see it by how the people acclaim him wherever he goes. That is the most favorable poll for him.” he told AFP.
Surveillance over the electoral process even reached the Lollapalooza festival that closes this Sunday in Sao Paulo.
A minister of Superior Electoral Court (TSE) prohibited political demonstrations to artists who perform at the event, after a claim from Bolsonaro’s party on Saturday after criticism from two singers.
Source: Ambito
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