The main contenders for the presidency of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro and Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, launched attacks this Saturday in political acts a week before the polarized elections of October 2.
The current president, who appears 14 points behind Lula in the latest Datafolha survey, participated in a motorcycle caravan in Campinas, 100 km north of the capital of the state of Sao Paulo, which concentrates the largest number of voters.
“We have completed three years and eight months without corruption in Brazil,” he said to applause. “They accuse me of everything, but they don’t call me corrupt.”
It has been a constant for Bolsonaro to describe Lula as a “thief”, convicted of corruption in the Lava Jato case, even though his sentence has been annulled by the Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, the president’s family has been accused of irregularities, which he dismisses.
“On this side a person who defends the family; over there, a thief who says that family values are a setback“, settled the president, who accused Lula, popular ex-governor of Brazil (2003-2010), of supporting the legalization of abortion, drugs and the control of weapons.
Lula said shortly after in another political act in the São Paulo neighborhood of Grajaú that his government “is not going to facilitate the purchase of weapons.”
“We are going to make a revolution without needing to buy a weapon, without shooting. Our revolution is buying books”, he responded with this phrase already used in his campaign.
Bolsonaro said that in any case he will “resolve the question of weapons” after the elections.
“I am sure that all of you, if necessary, will give your lives for freedom. I repeat: armed people will not be enslaved, no one will steal our freedom,” said the president.
Lula has another act this Saturday afternoon. Her campaign appeals to the so-called useful vote to achieve a victory in the first round. The latest Datafolha survey opened that scenario: 33%-47% of the intention to vote.
“Every time a new poll comes out in which I go up a point and he [Bolsonaro] drops a point, goes crazy. He has a migraine crisis […] He has a pain that seems to be called Lula“said the candidate, who promised to raise the minimum wage, improve pensions and build more homes and schools.
