“Lula is in favor of life,” says a spot that launched the candidate’s campaign focused on the position on the legalization of abortion, something that the former president had been in favor of during the first part of the campaign, but now he made a change for the second round.
The PT candidate maintained that the issue was a “public health problem” and that “everyone should be able to do it,” but in the dispute over votes that occurs after the first round, Lula aims to undermine the religious base who supports Jair Bolsonaro, current president of Brazil and his opponent.
“Not only am I against abortion, but all the women I have married are against abortion,” Lula assured in the video broadcast by the Metropoles website and in which the candidate addresses the camera directly and gives his opinion about the topic.
The votes of Catholics and evangelicals in Brazil represent a large percentage that the candidates try to seek to gain access to the presidency and in the last elections they meant a strong traction for the victory of Bolsonaro, something that this time is in dispute.
“I think almost everyone is against abortion. Not only because we are defenders of life, but because it must be something very unpleasant, very painful for someone to have an abortion,” Lula said in the video that circulated, which means a change of position in the weeks prior to the second round.
