At the beginning of the program held in Sao Paulo, the far-right president and the left-wing leader accused each other of lying to Brazilian society.
“Lula stop lying, it’s bad for a man of his age,” Bolsonaro told him67, to his rival, 76.
“You are the king of fake news, the king of stupidity,” Lula replied.who harshly accused Bolsonaro for his management of the pandemic.
“Their negligence caused 680,000 people to die when half could have been saved,” Lula said.
Both candidates, dressed in dark suits and ties – green for Bolsonaro and the colors of Brazil for Lula – questioned each other standing, walking across the stage, without exchanging glances.
The debate is a key instance to win over undecided voters, according to analysts, amid a campaign of strong attacks among the candidates and from their entourage, including accusations of cannibalism or links to organized crime.
Voting trend
In the first round of October 2, Lula prevailed with 48.4% of the vote, against 43.2% for Bolsonaro, who had a better result than anticipated by the polls.
For the ballot, the leader of the Workers’ Party (PT) is the favorite, with 49% of voting intentions, five percentage points behind Bolsonaro, who has 44% of the support, according to a survey by the Datafolha Institute released last Friday.
93% of those consulted indicated that they had already defined their vote, while 6% said they would vote blank or invalid, and 2% said they were undecided.
Bolsonaro said upon arriving at the television studio in Sao Paulo that the last 24 hours were “the most terrible” of his life, after the leftist leader’s entourage accused him of “pedophilia”after the viralization of statements about Venezuelan minors.
For his part, Lula maintained that “everything is expected from Bolsonaro,” and accused him of acting in “bad faith” with adolescents.
On Saturday, Bolsonaro was the center of opposition criticism for statements in which, when referring to migration from Venezuela, he indicated that he had entered the house for Venezuelan minors in a vulnerable neighborhood in April 2021 in Brasilia after generating “a climate.”
Lula’s party spread the images on their networks this Sunday.
Bolsonaro had repudiated the criticism hours before and clarified that he entered the house along with “10 other people”, broadcast “by CNN”.
“The PT crossed all the limits”, he said, indignant.
Following a request from the president’s lawyers, the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) ordered the video with the statements from multiple platforms to be removed, considering that it constitutes “negative electoral propaganda.”
Days ago, Bolsonaro accused Lula of being “drunk” and circulated false information – even fogueada by one of the president’s sons -, which associated the leftist with organized crime after wearing a cap with the initials of a favela complex in Rio de Janeiro.
Christopher Mendonca, a doctor in Political Science, anticipated “a heated debate, with very little information on government plans,” given that “the proposals lost centrality and accusations gained ground.”
Lula advances towards the ballot with the support of former candidate and senator Simone Tebet and former center-left candidate Ciro Gomes, who garnered 4% and 3% respectively in the first round.
While, Bolsonaro has key support from higher-income voters and evangelicals.
Source: Ambito
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