As the race for president of Brazil intensifies, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a socialist, has attacked Jair Bolsonaro by referring to him as a “cheap imitation” of former US President Donald Trump.
cheap imitation: Following Bolsonaro’s criticism of Cheap Imitation the nation’s computerized voting system, Da Silva charged that his far-right adversary had borrowed a strategy from an American far-right leader.
According to AFP, Bolsonaro repeatedly claims that the system is fraudulent, with little evidence to support his claims. This raises concerns that, should he lose the election in Brazil in the month of October, he could not recognize the results.\
Lula asserted that Cheap Imitation Bolsonaro “has lied, distributed fake news, and rejected our institutions” in a dialogue with international reporters.
He’s a cheap Imitation replica of Trump, the 76-year-old, who is currently leading in the polls, continued.
“Trump also made an effort to reject the verdict of Cheap Imitation. He ultimately had to yield when they attempted to invade the Capitol “said Lula.
He reaffirmed his faith in Brazilian institutions by declaring that they will “without a doubt” uphold the election results.
Concerns have been raised by Bolsonaro’s criticism of the computerized voting of machines that Brazil has been using since 1996. If Bolsonaro, often known as yhe “Tropical Trump,” loses the elections in the month of October, there have been concerns that he would emulate his political hero.
In a recent interview, the incumbent stated that he would accept the result “as long as the elections are fair and transparent.”
The assault on the Washington, D.C., Capitol last year, when Trump supporters rioted in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent Congress from confirming their candidate’s loss in the 2020 election, alarmed some Brazilians, who were fear that their country might be experience its own, potentially more violent, version of the incident.
Bolsonaro, a nationalist-populist with a conservative Christian agenda, is running against a former union leader who served as president of the country for two terms (2003–2010), but who was imprisoned for corruption before his convictions were overturned.
Bolsonaro, a former army captain, spoke to a crowd early on Tuesday afternoon in Juiz de Fora, where he was stabbed during the 2018 campaign that brought him to power on a wave of anti-Lula fervor.
Our nation now wants peace and prosperity, not corruption, he declared.
In industrial Sao Bernardo dos Campos outside of Sao Paulo, where he became a labor leader in the 1970s and battled for greater pay despite of repression under the military dictatorship, Lula kicked off his campaign with a stop at the Volkswagen car factory’s gates. Lula is nine years older than his opponent, who is 76.
In a video posted to social media early on Tuesday, Lula asserted that Bolsonaro had brought hunger back to Brazil and that inflation was having an impact on low-income families.
We are going to have a lot of work to repair this country, he said as he launched his reelection campaign.
In the first round, Lula won 44% of the vote to Bolsonaro’s 32%, far outpacing the other of the 10 candidates, according to a poll conducted on Monday by IPEC, formerly known as IBOPE. Lula would be prevail in a run-off with 51% of the vote to Bolsonaro’s 35%, a 16-point margin. Additionally, Bolsonaro’s leadership of the country is opposed by 57% of Brazilians, while 37% support him.
However, Bolsonaro has lessened Lula’s lead in recent weeks by increasing welfare spending for the country’s poor and exerting pressure on Petrobras, the government-owned oil company, to lower fuel prices, a major factor in inflation.
