Brazilian president bolsters programs that help the poorest families, while leftist politicians reach out to center politicians
In the longest race in which the elections for the presidency of Brazil have become, there is no time to foresee. This is how the two big candidates understand it, Lula da Silva and Jair Bolsonaro, who have activated the rest of the arsenal of proposals since the day after they heard they had to go to a runoff on October 30 to convince a deeply divided electorate. The man who has ruled this country for the past four years has more vigorously activated the Aid Brazil program, which consists of offering money to the poorest families, while at the same time working to win women’s voices, a gender that the vast majority has distinguished by supporting Lula, who is now seeking alliances with the middle class, and, according to some sources, with some men of Bolsonarism who were defeated on Sunday.
The more than 6 million votes (48.4%) added by former President Lula in the first round of last Sunday’s elections were not enough to defeat Bolsonaro (43.2%) who received an oxygen balloon, totally unforeseen in the polls that Lula used to give. the victory by more than 14 points.
In the most polarized and tense elections Brazil has seen in recent years, the choice is who will be the leader who will take the reins of a country with 33 million hungry families, with a weakened economy and with the suspicion that Democracy is in danger, Jair Bolsonaro appears with extraordinary motivation after seeing that he has a majority in Congress and in the Senate, although it is also true that the Workers’ Party (PT), led by Lula, has grown in both chambers.
For Bolsonaro, however, it seems that everything he has been blamed for the crisis in the country has had no effect on him. In all, seven of its ministers were elected to Congress, with the surprise that among them was the Environment Minister, Eduardo Pazuello, who oversaw deforestation in the Amazon, which reached levels not seen in recent years, fifteen years. had been reached. And Health’s Luiz Henrique Mandetta has been criticized for being slow in buying the vaccines to fight the pandemic, with Brazil recording more than 658,000 deaths. It was also surprising that the judge who imprisoned Lula, Sergio Moro, who years later accused the Federal Supreme Court of being impartial and therefore declared the former president innocent and released him from prison, has a seat for senator. won in the state of Paraná, just as his wife managed to secure a position as a deputy in Sao Paulo, a territory dominated by Bolsonarism.
“We have elected the most conservative parliament in years,” lawyer and professor Juliana Bertholdi told this newspaper. “This would give Bolsonaro, if elected, unprecedented controllability,” he adds. In reality, there are many voices who believe that the Brazilian electorate is divided between those who vote against Lula and those who vote against Bolsonaro. Many still see in Lula an ex-con, as Bolsonaro has called him in all debates, who was part of a corruption. It doesn’t matter if he’s found innocent. And with Bolsonaro it happens that democracy is in danger.
But Bolsonaro has promised families in need $113 a month in cash and brought the payment program forward to the 25th, not the 31st as he had done. He also wants to create jobs by removing all bureaucratic restrictions.
Lula, who had the support of Ciro Gomes, the fourth most voted candidate in the first round, at the time of going to press, knows he has the poor in his favor, he would also subsidize them by $113, he would raise the rich and would reinvigorate a housing plan for the poor. The former president announced his intention to contact politicians from the center. “The Brazilian people dream of the foundations of dignity. Having something to eat, having a job, the right to leisure, seeing your family healthy. A government must guarantee this. And we will take care of the people who need us again,” he wrote on the networks.
Lula is not without important support like that of the writer Paulo Coelho who today recalled his early years composing songs and during which he was imprisoned and tortured by the dictatorship, closing a tweet with the hashtag #TenteOutraVez, a song that speaks to try again, that this is not yet over, and “say not the victory is lost.” The writer wants this to be tomorrow’s national anthem, he says in the tweet.
Source: La Verdad
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