Less than a month from the first round of the presidential election, the Head of State brought together thousands of supporters during the national holiday on Wednesday, while Lula is ahead of the polls.
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Brazil finally breathes after the celebration of the bicentennial of its independence on Wednesday, September 7, transformed into an immense electoral meeting of Jair Bolsonaro, bringing together thousands of people – 64,000, according to the political debate observatory From Sao Paulo – but without overflows. “Not a single broken window! I said it, we are not like these leftists who burn the tires. God is with us, he guides us”, jubilant inêz Belarmino, whose body is entirely wrapped in a Brazilian flag .
This candidate for the post of regional deputy in Rio de Janeiro for the party of President Bolsonaro (Liberal Party, PL) arrived early on Copacabana beach with a heavy bag of prospectus. For her, the bicentennial is above all a campaign day, and she distributes her leaflets with the same speech, widely applauded, between the supporters of the president. “I am the mother who fights against the ideology of the genre and the indoctrination in the schools. We must win, otherwise the left will close the churches,” she repeats, showing a video roughly mounted Former President Lula, practicing Catholic, who said that Brazil does not need churches but communism.
Inêz Belarmino is not the only one to peddle lies on this beautiful sunny day, punctuated by cannon shots from the Copacabana military fort and the green and yellow fumes of the aerobatic squadron of the army of the air. On the many tanks, the speakers attack the media and beg the public to no longer believe them: “Take your televisions, the polls are false, our president will be elected in the first round, as he was in 2018” , we hear on the tank of the Endireta Brasil movement. President Jair Bolsonaro had already set the tone the same morning in Brasilia, speaking in front of his supporters: “I have never seen such a large sea of green and yellow colors, here there is no lie DataFolha [one of the most important Brazilian survey institutes], here is our “data-peuple”, here is the truth. “
” powerful images “
Make the polls lie – which all place him in second position behind the former president Inacio Lula da Silva, says Lula – seems to have been the main objective of the Head of State, according to Thomas Trauma, researcher in the laboratory political analysis and digital communication from the Getulio Vargas Foundation: “With this mobilization, he gathered his troops and galvanized them. He now has powerful images that he will not fail to use in his next electoral propaganda for denigrate the polls. “
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