With a black jacket buttoned up to the neck, Bolsonaro reiterated his promise to fight against double-digit inflation, abortion, drugs and defend “private property”, brandishing the “communist” threat in Brazil if he loses the elections on 2 March. october.
“Myth, myth, myth!” Hundreds of followers chanted. His wife, Michelle Bolsonaro, prayed the Lord’s Prayer and stated that it is a “universal prayer.” The woman was cheered even more than the president.
accusations
Bolsonaro warned of a return to “communism” and insisted that his opponents imposed a “dictatorship” during the pandemic, referring to the governors and mayors who decreed quarantines as prevention against covid-19.
“You already felt a little dictatorship during the pandemic, with churches being closed, people not being able to go to work,” the president assured.
Then, he insisted on Twitter: “You have to be careful because those who love red will seek to use the green and yellow of the flag, those who defended closing churches will say they are great Christians, those who support socialist dictatorships will call themselves Democrats.”
In the place where he was attacked on September 6, 2018 by Adelio Bispo -a psychiatric patient who is hospitalized for being declared incompetent- and before thousands of people, several of whom had flags and posters with the phrase “Trump 2024”, Bolsonaro He associated “left-handedness with corruption” and said he was willing to “give his life for freedom.”
Bad weather
For his part, Lula da Silva had to cancel the launch of his campaign in São Paulo due to security problems, a fact that reveals the extreme tension surrounding the process.
The agents of the Federal Police (PF) in charge of the custody of the former left-wing president recommended not to carry out the first campaign event, scheduled for the morning in a factory in the São Paulo neighborhood of Jurubatuba.
Instead, a rally was held in the afternoon at the Volkswagen vehicle factory in São Bernardo do Campo, a city in the São Paulo industrial belt where Lula worked as a metallurgist in the 1960s and 1970s.
In it, he maintained that “if there is someone possessed by the devil, that is Bolsonaro,” after stating that he is a “creator of lies and a denier” who “did not shed a tear for the orphans left by the pandemic.”
Lula described Bolsonaro as “genocidal” and said that in Brazil “we have to distribute books instead of weapons”, as proposed by the head of state.
Voting intention
A survey published yesterday by the FSB agency placed Lula da Silva first with a vote intention of 45% against 34% for Bolsonaro.
The former president added 4 points more than in the previous measurement of said consultant, while Bolsonaro kept his.
If none of the candidates obtained 50% plus one of the valid and positive votes on October 2, a second round would be held on the 30th of the same month.
In an eventual ballot, Lula – 76 years old and who was president twice between 2003 and 2010 – would be elected with 53%, two points more than in the previous poll, against 38% of President Bolsonaro, who fell 1% .
military factor
The pre-campaign has been marked by Bolsonaro’s constant questioning – without evidence – of the reliability of the electronic voting system in Brazil. His criticism has raised fears that he will not recognize an eventual defeat and that a part of the Armed Forces will come out in his defense and perpetrate a coup.
Bolsonaro “is trying to weaken the electoral system,” deplored the NGO Human Rights Watch.
Lula da Silva, in turn, promises to restore the social achievements for the most vulnerable classes that characterized his governments, while harshly attacking Bolsonaro for the 680,000 deaths that occurred in Brazil during the pandemic.
The main concern of Brazilians, according to surveys, is the economic situation, marked in recent years by high levels of unemployment and inflation of the order of 12% year-on-year, which has reduced Jair Bolsonaro’s popularity.
Source: Ambito
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