The two Brazilian presidential candidates, Jair Bolsonaro and Lula, clashed on Sunday, accusing each other of lying during their first televised face-to-face, two weeks before the second round.
“Lula, stop lying, a man of your age!” Launched the far-right president, 67, during the first minutes of this debate on the Bandeirantes channel.
Bolsonaro, “the king of stupidity”
“You are the king of false information, the king of stupidity,” retorted former leftist head of state Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (2003-2010).
Lula, 76, dedicated a good part of his speech at the beginning of the debate to criticizing his opponent’s “negligence” during the Covid-19 pandemic, which killed more than 680,000 people in Brazil.
Jair Bolsonaro, for his part, accused the former metallurgist of “not having the slightest concern for the poorest”, congratulating himself for having approved exceptional expenses worth 600 reais (about 97 euros) in subsidies paid to the most precarious families.
Lula won 48.3% of the vote in the first round on October 2, compared to 43.2% for the far-right president. The electoral campaign was marked by virulent attacks between the candidates and their entourage, who did not hesitate to launch accusations of cannibalism, pedophilia or links to organized crime.
Source: BFM TV
