Lula threw the Public Letter to the Evangelist People in a meeting with evangelical pastors and politicians linked to religions, in an attempt to stop the wave of the extreme right that installed a series of urban legends in the poorest neo-Pentecostal electorate, where an increase in rejection of the former trade unionist has been detected in an agenda of values and customs
“In the midst of this sad scandal of the use of faith for electoral purposes, I promise you: my Government will never use symbols of your faith for partisan political purposes, respecting the laws and traditions that separate the State from the Church, so that there is political interference in the practice of faith”says Lula’s letter.
The decision on a letter to the evangelicals is due to an alert raised 11 days before the ballot on October 30 for fear of an increase in rejection of the figure of Lula that could allow abstention and the Bolsonarist advance, as explained to Télam by a spokesperson for the Workers’ Party (PT) campaign present at the event, in a hotel in São Paulo.
Abortion in the center of the scene
The former president, who is leading the polls with a view to the ballot with Bolsonaro on the 30th of this month, assured in the letter that he will respect freedom of worship in the country, denied that if he reaches the Government he will close temples and install unisex bathrooms and denounced a campaign of “lies” by Bolsonarism.
Lula confirmed in the letter his position against abortion “in a personal way”but clarified that the discussion to change the legislation is a matter to be discussed by Congress and not by the president.
With the act in São Paulo, the opposition candidate tried to reject the wave of false lies launched by the main neo-Pentecostal electronic pastors, especially the Universal Church, whose owner, Edir Macedo, controls the Record channel, the second of Brazilian TV, and the r7 portal, the second most viewed in the country.
According the surveys, Bolsonaro leads 65% to 35% preferences among evangelists.
“We live in a period in which lies are being used intensively in order to instill fear in people of good faith and keep them from supporting a candidacy that defends them more,” the letter also read, read on the spot by Gilberto Carvalho, his former secretary general of the presidency and political link of the PT with Pope Francis.
According to Lula, the letter is to “reaffirm the commitment to freedom of worship and religion in the country.”
“Everyone knows that there was never any risk to the functioning of the Churches while I was President. On the contrary! With the prosperity that we helped build, it was in our Government where the Churches grew the most, mainly the evangelical ones, without any impediment,” he said.
In a speech after reading the letter, Lula denounced the existence of an unprecedented moment in Brazilian political history, which is the dissemination of hate.
Source: Ambito
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