Luiz Inacio ‘Lula’ da Silva Monday night she had the last major act of the election campaignaccompanied by the stars of Brazilian song Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil. There was a climate of enthusiasm in Sao Paulo. Probability of victory for the Labor Party (PT) candidate first round, next sundayincreased after the announcement of the latest survey by consultancy firm İpek. If blank, blank and undecided votes are excluded, Lula will receive 52 percent of the vote valid, 18 points above the president Jair BolsonaroThe Liberal Party (PL) standard bearer. Ipec placed Lula’s former minister Ciro Gomes (PDT) in third place with 6% support and Senator Simone Tebet from the centrist MDB with 5%.
“What we need is simple. I need you to put me there, 2 (October),” Lula asked the Brazilians, who still don’t know what to do on Sunday. The latest polls have taken Bolsonaro out of his mind. dream of emulation Italian Giorgia Meloni seems unfounded. The need to secure it to the second round and then bet everything or nothing has also been questioned, at least by the polls. Retired captain doesn’t stop spreading doubtful about transparency from elections. “If I’m getting less than 60 percent of the vote, it’s because it’s something abnormal considering the number of people who went to my events at the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) and how I was received everywhere I went,” he said. Silvio Santos, businessman and host of São Paulo channel SBT.
“The judges who got Lula out of jail and made her eligible are the exact same judges who run the Brazilian election process and make it difficult for the transparency commission to participate in the elections. eliminate the possibility of questioning Sunday night,” he bellowed, as his rival prepared for the rally in Sao Paulo. “PT promises heaven and brings hell,” he added.
The discrediting of the competition has become one of the slogans of the far right. The most severe Bolsonarism is the product of the technological conditions of recent years. Messianic commentators, “influencers” and slanderers form a virtual army that implements what analysts describe as “shock politics.” Since the start of the year, consulting firm Novelo has counted 10,000 videos that should later be eliminated due to their offensive nature. this machines’fake news‘ concentrated at the end of the election campaign. Even if its leader is defeated, the far right is here to stay, both on social networks and in its preferred habitat, as well as in Congress, in the federal states and municipalities. He has the capacity to condition the next political process, similar to what General Augusto Pinochet did when he was defeated at the ballot box in Chile, but remained at the head of the Army for eight years until his arrest in London.
military role
Uniformed men are currently the main arbiter of the conflict. In fact, they ruled together with Bolsonaro, occupying numerous ministries and State structures. The president was appointed former chief of staff, retired general Walter Braga Netto. The militarization of politics has another clear expression in this contest: the far right. 1,500 candidates for elective positions integrating the Armed Forces, Military Police and firefightersAgainst 1,186 candidates who accompanied Bolsonarism in 2018.
Retired General Eduardo Pozuelo, who ran the Health portfolio at the worst of a pandemic that killed 686,000 people, joined the ranks of the ruling PL in these elections. All of these candidates are amassing an inheritance of about $113 million, the Public Agency reported. The richest of these is former Army Colonel Nilson Jespersen, who describes himself as: right wing patriot. He is on the party list of ardent Bolsonarist Roberto Jefferson, who was placed under house arrest for attacking institutions and sentenced to seven years in prison for corruption in 2013.
Obscene warning from Washington
In the context of this agitation in the networks and on the streets, the big question that currently has no definitive answer is about the role the military will play on Sunday night if the polls’ predictions are confirmed. Bolsonaro hides behind the general. However, contrary to what happened in 2018, this time the leadership preferred silence when they shamelessly bet on the retired captain. In this context, Washington supported the “honesty” of TSE, which the government put in the defendant’s seat. The White House spoke through its embassy in Brazil and “Confidence” in the selection process “has not changed”.