Bolsonaro encouraged his followers to vote with the national team shirt

The Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro urged his followers on Wednesday to wear the jersey of the national soccer team and vote with it on election next Sundaywhere the current head of state will seek his re-election.

In a live broadcast through your social networks, Bolsonaro criticized the Electoral Justice is considering banning people from wearing shirts inside polling stations, as the colors yellow and green are associated with the presidential campaign.

“Mr Alexandre de Moraes -Head of the Superior Electoral Court- Ban the use of the national team jersey? That’s too intrusive. Are you afraid of what? Are you worried about the green and yellow sea of ​​people who voted?” said the Brazilian far-right leader.

According to local media, some members of the Transparency Commission, which was created in 2021 by the Electoral Justice itself to supervise the elections, asked De Moraes considers that prohibitionbut, according to the same press, the high magistrate dismissed that possibility.

In your program, Bolsonaro also intensified the criticism against the former president of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvaopposition candidate and strong favorite for Sunday’s elections.

According to Bolsonaro, this is a “lie” Lula was “acquitted” of corruption charges for which he remained imprisoned for 580 days and criticized the suspension of the trial against the former president for a tax debt of 18 million reais (about 3.6 million dollars).

On Tuesday, the magistrate Gilmar Mendesof the Supreme Court, suspended the tax collection process against Lula, favorite in all voting intention polls with between fifteen and 18 percentage points advantage over Bolsonaro.

The president mentioned that Mendes “is part of that voteand Lula was ‘convicted’ and the process is back for the first time” and, according to Bolsonaro, his political rival intends to “not pay the bills of millions” that he should pay to the treasury and, in addition, “he comes in with a request for payment. against the Brazilian State.”

Lulaadded the president, he seeks “to be compensated for the time he was imprisoned. And you can be sure that all the informers who returned the (diverted) money will ask for that money back with interest and monetary correction,” he ironized.

He also said he was “ashamed” that he had to conduct his program outside the presidential residence after an order from the Electoral Justice prevented him from using it for that type of broadcast during the campaign.