Jair Bolsonaro (PL) again called Lula da Silva (PT) a “thief” in campaign speeches in the cities of Petrolina and Juazeiro, which despite being neighbors in different states, Pernambuco and Bahia. The re-election candidate once again declared his belief in a first-round victory, contradicting the polls’ signs.
“We don’t want a thief leading the federal government. We believe that on October 2, the Brazilian people will elect Jair Bolsonaro in the first round,” said the man himself, mounted on a bull with stickers on the horns referring to the candidate. , for lunch in the “Bodódromo”, in Petrolina, and departure by motorcycle, without helmet, to Juazeiro.
“If this is the will of God, we will win by your hands in the first round. Where the people are, we will be there!” he continued. However, according to the latest Ipec poll, Lula is up 48% against Bolsonaro’s 31%. In the northeast, where the president spoke, 62 percent prefer the former president.
Lula, in turn, said after meeting the ministers of the governments of Fernando Henrique Cardoso, of the rival PSDB, that “bolsonarism will continue”. “We are going to win Bolsonaro, but bolsonarism will continue and we need to beat it with political debate, with healthy discussion, so that society understands that the country can no longer have people of their kind who rule or do politics.”
“I have never seen the PSDB as an enemy. It was always a cyclical opponent at the time of elections. It is important that we do not think alike, that we have differences. When people talk about the polarization that is happening today, I say that Brazil was happy when the polarization between PT and PSDB was,” he concluded.
For Simone Tebet (MDB), who campaigned in São Paulo: “Lula and Bolsonaro feed each other”. “The only useful voice is me,” he said. For the candidate: “while we have 5 million hungry children sleeping, we have two candidates who talk about ideology and, populists that they are, do not present a country project and feed on this polarization and hatred, we present ourselves from the democratic center to Brazil, I can’t sleep in peace knowing 33 million people are food insecure.”
Ciro Gomes (PDT), who also campaigns against the useful vote, lamented in an interview with TV Record that his political brothers, Cid and Ivo Gomes, support the PT candidate in their home state of Ceará. “The stab wound in the back is still open, he’s still bleeding…”.
Source: DN
