“People who are illiterate are not illiterate on their own responsibility.but because this country never had a government that cared about education” like his (2003-2010), Lula pointed out, after a campaign walk in Sao Bernardo do Campo, in the metropolitan region of Sao Paulo where he was forged as union leader in the 1970s.
“It was an almost illiterate metallurgist who brought the university here”he added, highlighting his policies to increase access to university education.
Lula prevailed with 48.4% against 43.2% of the total votes in the first round of the presidential dispute, which will be decided in a ballot on October 30. But the difference was much greater in the northeastern states, a traditional stronghold of his Workers’ Party (PT), where 67% supported Lula and 26.8% Bolsonaro.
Bolsonaro affirmed on Wednesday during a live broadcast on social networks that “Lula won in 9 of the 10 states with the highest illiteracy rate (…) in the northeast” of the country, which also show “inferior economic data.”
According to the far-right president, this is due to successive PT governments: “The left enters, it brings illiteracy, lack of culture, unemployment,” he said.
His statements generated criticism from opponents, which the president rejected this Thursday on Twitter: “Don’t fall for speeches that try to put us against our brothers in the Northeast.”
On his side, Lula asked “whoever has a drop of northeastern blood” not to vote for “that denier, monster, who rules this country.”
According to analysts, winning votes for the ballot in the north and northeast will be key to the campaign for Bolsonaro, who prevailed in the southern and central western states, such as Santa Catarina or Goiás.
In Bay, the state with the largest population in the northeast, with 15 million inhabitants, 69.7% of the votes went to the leftist leader, and 24.3% to the right-wing president.
According to official data up to the second quarter of 2022, the number of people with less than one year or no education represents 11.6% of the population in the Northeast, above the other regions and the national average of 7. 6%.
On the other hand, the north and northeast concentrate most of the Brazilians who suffer from hunger: four out of every ten families, according to the Penssan Network.
Source: Ambito
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