The absence of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the ideological alliance between the current president, Jair Bolsonaro, and the candidate father Kelmon were highlights of the debate on the Brazilian presidential elections held on Saturday.
The meeting, promoted by the television channels SBT and CNN, the newspaper ‘Estadão’/Rádio Eldorado, the Terra website, the magazine Veja and Rádio Nova Brasil FM, was attended by the candidates Jair Bolsonaro, Ciro Gomes, Simone Tebet (MDB) and Soraya Thronicke, Luís Felipe D’Ávila and Father Kelmon.
All criticized Lula da Silva, leader of the polls, who was invited, but preferred to attend the campaign events in São Paulo instead of participating in the debate.
Bolsonaro said that Lula da Silva has no commitment to the population for having missed the debate.
“Can you imagine, would you hire, would you hire at home a candidate who missed the job interview? That is the candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who does not deserve your vote at all. He did not even come to the job interview,” shot by the candidate Soraya Tronicke, from the União Brasil (right).
“But the fact, in Brazil, my brother, my Brazilian brothers, is what forces us to reflect on this night that we are here, except for the candidate Lula, who did not come because he was in high heels, he thinks he has already won, and for that disrespects all of us, his opponents,” Ciro Gomes stressed.
Bolsonaro and a rookie candidate named Father Kelmon, who identifies as an Orthodox cleric but is not, according to local media, linked to any church, and whose candidacy was confirmed by the Brazilian Labor Party (PTB) earlier this month, made an ideological doublet. up at different times.
Initially they spoke of the persecution of Christians in Nicaragua, associating the president of the Caribbean country, Daniel Ortega, with leftist parties in Brazil, especially Lula da Silva’s Workers’ Party (PT), and then Bolsonaro and Father Kelmon defended the government. social projects
Father Kelmon praised Bolsonaro and said the debate was “five against two,” referring to the other candidates against him and the president.
In an irreverent moment, Father Kelmon associated feminism with the defense of abortion and asked if candidate Simone Tebet was in favor of abortion because she declared herself a feminist.
Simone Tebet, of the center-right Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB) party, said she was personally against abortion and said the candidate’s concept of feminism was very different from her own.
D’avila criticized the PT in almost all his appearances -although the question had to do with the current government- and also attacked Lula da Silva for not attending the debate.
“Enough of Lula da Silva, enough of this Barrabás who has been attacking the Brazilian Republic,” D’Ávila fired.
The candidates used much of their time to attack Bolsonaro.
Simone Tebet questioned the Brazilian president about cutting money for the purchase of food to feed children in schools, to which Bolsonaro responded by saying that the government’s budget is made with Congress, where she serves as a senator.
Soraya Tronicke cited the cut in funds for the construction of popular housing and other social programs to keep the budget a secret, a name given to an amount of the Brazilian Executive’s budget given to the Army and the leadership of Congress in exchange for support for the government. Projects
“What is it, it does not readjust the school snack, but it spends millions on condensed milk, it takes medicine from the popular pharmacy, but it continues to buy viagra, it does not buy a vaccine for covid-19, but it distributes penile prostheses to friends?”, he said Soraya Tronicke.
The presidential elections in Brazil have the first round scheduled for October 2 and the second, if necessary, for October 30.
Eleven candidates are running for the Brazilian presidential elections: Jair Bolsonaro, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Ciro Gomes, Simone Tebet, Luís Felipe D’Ávila, Soraya Tronicke, Eymael, Father Kelmon, Leonardo Pericles, Sofia Manzano and Vera Lúcia.
Source: TSF
