The Argentine ambassador to Brazil, Daniel Scioli, said on Monday that “the extreme polarization” in the presidential elections in that country between President Jair Bolsonaro and former Head of State Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was “surprised,” anticipating that “the new challenges” in the campaign for the ballot on October 30, they will be oriented towards “searching for voters who chose another political force or those who did not go to vote.”
“The percentage achieved with Lula was predictable, what was surprising was the extreme polarization that leads Bolsonaro to end up with 5 points. The new challenges are aimed at finding voters who chose another political force or those who did not go to vote. Surely we will see a campaign of other characteristics in development around October 30,” the diplomatic representative considered in statements made to Radio 10.
Scioli affirmed that he had traveled through the different Brazilian states before the elections and that he had noticed that there was not “a climate of such difference” as the one anticipated by the pollsters “who gave Lula a 14 or 15 point advantage.”
“I see that Lula has great wisdom at this point in life. With all his political experience can make a very accurate reading of what the target is now. If you start to analyze Lula’s campaign and the decisions he was making, he was preparing for a second round since he elected the vice president and made an alliance with other parties in his effort to reach the center, the independent sectors,” he stressed. the.
The ambassador also maintained that, “surely, now Lula will go in search of the other voters” with the aim of further deepening his speech “which has to do with the Brazil of hope and that people be happy again”.
“Appealing to people’s memories of the best moments of their governments and seeking to reduce the difference where Bolsonaro clearly won, as in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro,” he said.
While, considered that Bolsonaro is going to continue “with a style of direct contact with his people and appealing to the values that he refers to: life, family, God”, and he opined that “he will surely have to make more of an effort to ask for the vote for a re-election”.
“We will see if the conditions are met for a final debate. In the previous one they were very disorganized in terms of the participation of each of the seven candidates and that made it impossible to clearly see the hand-in-hand that people expect,” he remarked.
Also, He recalled that Brazil “is Argentina’s main partner” so the country’s objective is that “it do well” because it is the “great destination for exports”.
“In Argentina we cannot lose sight of the importance of a Brazil that grows and develops because it will need more Argentine products such as those from the automotive sector,” he added.
