Jair Bolsonaro officially launches his campaign for his re -election

presenting himself as the “captain of the people”, the Brazilian president, accompanied by his wife Michelle, thanks to which he hopes to attract female vote, posed as a defender of the people and democracy with great references Christian.

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Nearly ten thousand people moved this Sunday to attend the launch of the candidacy for the re -election of President Jair Bolsonaro for the Liberal Party (PL), within the Maracanazinho (the “Petit Maracana”); A gymnasium glued to the legendary stadium of Rio de Janeiro. From 8:30 a.m., the public was rushing into a Indian line, wearing the football seleçao jersey and waving the flags in Brazil; Two now traditional symbols of Bolsonarist meetings.

The PL had to change the organization of the event because a campaign launched by leftist activists proposed to reserve the places without going there, as the young American Democrats had done, in 2020, against the ‘Former President Donald Trump. “The media say that we do not respect democracy, but they, on the left, they are very worse,” weighed Samir Junior, who came with his wife from the neighboring state of Minas Gerais to support their candidate. According to this doctor, “the issue of this election is much more important than the previous one. We are very worried because we must absolutely avoid the return of the left in power”. And his wife, also a doctor, to add that the former president Lula, favorite of the election, “will immediately legalize abortion and drugs”. An assertion of Jair Bolsonaro on proposals which do not exist in the program of the Workers’ Party (PT), but which he still repeated this Sunday, by calling Lula “as a thief and alcoholic”.

him, the “captain of the people”, thus described in the new jingle of his campaign, improvised a speech of more than an hour in which he mixed the attacks against the left with the “achievements of my government” and Above all, the recent drop in petrol price, obtained thanks to the abolition of several local and federal taxes. The president seemed to take the candidate’s clothes, promising to fight, “for the good of Brazil, for the family and faith” before tripping at the end of the speech by repeating his attacks against the judges against the judges of the supreme electoral court in charge of elections. “These few deaf people with their black cape must understand what the voice of the people is. They must understand that it is the legislative and executive powers that make the laws,” he said under the cries of the repeating crowd ” Supreme is the people “.

growing role of the first lady

The president did not expressly quote his opposition to electronic voting, which he presents as fraudulent, as he had done earlier this week before an audience of ambassadors. But he called “the people” to demonstrate on September 7, the day of the independence of Brazil which will celebrate its bicentenary this year. The president did not promise his audience the “big evening” as he risked in 2021, finally giving up going further and leading “the blow” promised. Barely he launched: “Let’s go to the street one last time” and always to “defend freedom and democracy”.

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