On October 2, the first debate between presidential candidates lit up the Brazilian screens. crosses between Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvafavorite so far in polls and Jair Bolsonaro, Tensions were high, as expected, with the former president at least 15 behind (2003-10), who was seeking re-election. existence Cyrus Gomes (PDT, centre-left), the most outspoken of those in the debate, Simone Tebet of the centrist MDB, and liberals Luiz Felipe d’Avila (Novo) and Soraya Thonicke (Brazilian Union) were some of the supporters. actors in a political drama that transcends them. The polarization between Lula and Bolsonaro destroys their aspirations. Everything indicates that the second round will be between them on the last Sunday of October. Soon, polls will report the impact of the debate on the polls.
Bolsonaro and Lula’s meeting in the studios of the Bandeirantes television station started all over again. The retired captain called out to him”ex-convictThe Labor Party (PT) leader also did not forget that the trial he was exposed to and spent 585 days in prison only served to get him out of the 2018 elections that allowed the far right to reach him. government.
The retired captain did not cease to insist that Lula led the “most corrupt” administration in Brazilian history. “The country I left when I left the presidency is a country that people miss,” he said. In turn, under his presidency, he made sure to create more jobs, inclusion policies, investment in education, and less deforestation in the Amazon. “Your gardener and your servant have seen the country recover,” replied Lula to Thronike, who also objected to the PT’s years at the Planalto Palace. As it is known, during the commercial breaks, conflicts broke out between Lula’s advisors and the retired captain.
“Lies”, “fake news‘, ‘cheating’, ‘ridiculous numbers’ were some words frequently used in clashes between the two candidates with the highest vote intentions. Bolsonaro had to jeopardize the continuity of outreach for millions of needy and said he would suspend it after the elections.
moments of misogyny
The President, in his own way, could not prevent Elephant from being macho. “Why so much anger at women?Tebet wanted to know. During the pandemic that has killed more than 580,000 people, Bolsonaro got angry every time one of the candidates mentioned talks to buy a vaccine. “I couldn’t expect anything else from you. I think you sleep thinking of me. You have a little crush on me. You cannot take sides in such a discussion, you cannot make false accusations against me. You are an embarrassment to Brazilian journalism,” he snapped. television culture, Vera Magalhaes, who questioned him about it.
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“Bolsonaro insults a woman in the argument; Lula escaped corruption“, pointed folha Saint Paul comments on some aspects of the debate. For the São Paulo newspaper, the main candidates showed “weak spots” for three hours. As for Lula, he thought he was “focused on talking about the past, which is natural for someone who’s been in power for eight years.” However, he “missed an opportunity to look for the missing spots for a first-round victory”. Defending the former president, according to the publication Dilma Rousseff and classifying his dismissal as a coup d’état, Lula risked alienating a section of the middle class that was politically allergic to the PT.
As the media assumed, Bolsonaro criticized what he called judicial activism. “Some ministers of the STF (Supreme Federal Court) want to interfere with the Executive at all costs,” he said of a scandal last week: Federal Police raid on key businessmen sympathetic to the government. The president and who reported in a private whatsapp group that they preferred a coup over a Lula victory in October.
high stress days
The election campaign has not yet entered the critical month, but there are already signs that tensions will rise. On September 7, Bolsonaro will make his first show of force in the public arena to reduce the distance at the polls. extreme right, a mass event On the Janeiro River. The “wonderful city” will be the place where the president will once again repeat his main argument since the beginning of the year: due to the fragility of electronic ballot boxes, the elections are not completely transparent and reserve the right to appeal a negative situation. conclusion.