There are 15 days for the first round of this year’s elections, the agenda of the 11 presidential candidates this Saturday included walking, leafleting and motorcycle riding, with the right to face-to-face with voters. Some candidates, however, did not participate in public activities this Saturday.
The candidate for the Presidency of the Republic by the PDT, Ciro Gomes, participated in a campaign act in the city of Trindade, metropolitan region of Goiânia. During a visit to the Vila do Sonho neighborhood, the candidate spoke about the operation of the Urban Reform and Land Regularization program. The proposal seeks to legalize ownership of land and houses. In addition, he defended the measure of the government program aimed at financing the renovation of popular houses.
Constituent Eymael (DC) walked through the shops on Rua 12 de Outubro, in Lapa, a neighborhood in the west side of São Paulo. This Sunday (18), Eymael participates in a motorcade in the east of São Paulo in honor of the anniversary of the Tatuapé neighborhood.
Felipe D’Ávila (Novo) had no public agenda this Saturday (17).
The re-election candidate, Jair Bolsonaro (PL), made campaign acts in Caruaru, in Agreste Pernambucano. He defended the social actions of the current government during the covid-19 pandemic. “The government spent, in 2020, more than R$ 700 billion to fight the pandemic and a part of that was on top of Emergency Aid”, he said. Family Scholarship. Back then, the Bolsa Família started paying R$80 per month to the family and if the head of that family got a job, he would lose the Bolsa Família. In our government, we ended Bolsa Família and created Auxílio Brasil and the amount became at least R$600 and you can find a job that won’t miss Auxílio Brasil”, he added.
Candidate Leo Periclés, from the Popular Unit, participated today (17) in a lunch with campaign supporters, at the Popular Restaurant in Florianópolis, in Santa Catarina. On the candidate’s agenda, there is also a tweet at 6 pm. He urges supporters to post a photo with the inscription: “We want black candidates in the debates.” Leo wrote on his social network “To reverse this, we want to guarantee the participation of black candidates in the debates, debating a popular program and the anti-racist proposals of a government for the entire Brazilian people”.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, PTm candidate, participated in a rally this Saturday (17), in Boca Maldita, central region of Curitiba. In his speech, Lula regretted numbers from the Brazilian Education Development Index (Ideb). According to the survey, the percentage of children in the 2nd year of elementary school who still cannot read and write, not even simple words, more than doubled between 2019 and 2021, amid the covid-19 pandemic (started in 2020), with closed schools and remote teaching. Lula also highlighted his feelings for Curitiba, where he was imprisoned for 580 days, because of the conviction in the Operation Lava Jato process. “There are people who think that I hated Curitiba, because I was imprisoned here. The jail made me learn to love Curitiba. I have gratitude, I have respect for Curitiba”, said the presidential candidate.
Father Kelmon (PTB) only carried out an internal agenda with priests and pastors who supported the campaign, in São Paulo.
Sofia Manzano (PCB) fulfilled her agenda in the Bahian municipality of Feira de Santana. The day began with a collective breakfast at 9 am, and then she participated in a roundtable discussion with the candidate for federal deputy for the PCB, Ana Karen, and with the candidate for the government of Bahia, Giovani Damico, and his deputy, João Coimbra. Around 12:00, Sofia visited the Feira da Marechal, where she did leafleting and talked to voters. In the early afternoon, the candidate gave an interview to the local press.
União Brasil’s candidate for president, Soraya Thronicke (União Brasil), campaigned for the Alecrim street market and street vendor, in Natal. There, she talked to traders where she defended her proposal for a new economic policy for the country, with the adoption of a single tax, abolishing 11 federal taxes. The senator said that her party “has a liberal DNA in the economy” and stressed that there is no way to take care of people without taking care of the country’s economy. “Our tax system is chaotic and discourages investment, and we are very late in terms of opening markets,” she said. Soraya Thronicke also assessed that Brazil is one of the worst countries in the world for people to retire and guaranteed that if elected, she will remove the INSS discount from the payroll. Another promise of the candidate is that those who earn up to five minimum wages will no longer pay income tax.
The candidate for the Presidency of the Republic by the PSTU, Vera Lucia, defended the reduction of the working day to 30 hours a week, in an online debate with unionists and activist of social movements from the Central Union and Popular (CSP) – Conlutas. “We advocate reducing the working day to 6 hours [30 horas semanais]. This would allow the creation of another work shift, employing more people, sharing among all the work necessary for the country”, he said. “We defend an immediate end to the precariousness of work. All workers must have a formal contract, job stability, right to vacation, thirteenth and retirement. Companies that do not comply with labor laws and lay off workers en masse must be expropriated, leaving them under the control of workers,” he added.
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*Camila Maciel, Douglas Corrêa, Heloísa Cristaldo and Karine Melo collaborated.
