The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, once again challenged this Saturday the unfavorable polls that give him the loser of the 2022 election lawsuit and received a mass bath in the Agrest Nordestino, home and political stronghold of his opponent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Bolsonaro, who has been visiting the state of Pernambuco (northeast) since Friday, led a large caravan of motorcyclists who toured the municipalities of the arid and impoverished region, between the cities of Santa Cruz de Capibaribe and Caruaru and nearby from the town of Caetés, where former president Lula da Silva was born.
The feeling of support contrasts with the results of all opinion polls that give him as defeated before Lula in a possible confrontation in the October elections next year, in which Bolsonaro will seek re-election for a second term and his rapporteur to return to power then regain political rights.
Lula, who was arrested for corruption offenses, the sentences were overturned by the Supreme Court which ruled that the judge who convicted him, former Justice Minister Sergio Moro, had no competent jurisdiction to try him, regained his rights and is shaping up as Bolsonaro’s main rival in 2022.
The left-wing leader paid a visit last week to several of the states in the Northeast region, which has always been his political stronghold, and, unlike Bolsonaro and what polls predict in the run-up to the presidential elections. next year, he did not have the popular support that always accompanied him in the past in this place.
Lula’s entourage was shouted at by detractors in hotels and airports in Recife and other capitals such as Salvador (Bay), Natal (Rio Grande do Norte), Teresina (Piauí) and Fortaleza (Ceará), all with regional governments of left handed.
Despite his criticized management of the coronavirus pandemic, which in Brazil has around 21 million confirmed cases and 583,000 deaths, part of the poor population came to sympathize with Bolsonaro for his populist discourse against social isolation and a subsidy for 39 million people.
MANIFESTATIONS
In his speech at the Caruaru Commercial Pole, the second largest city in Pernambuco, Bolsonaro again used the defiant tone against the judiciary and legislature and insisted on the marches convened for next September 7, Independence Day.
“Those who dare not respect us will be put in their proper place. While jurists are looking for who is the moderating power of Brazil, I tell them that the moderating power is the Brazilian people,” he said.
“There are one or two playing outside the 4 lines of the Constitution. We play inside the 4 lines, but the people cannot allow any of us to do it outside,” Bolsonaro said, without direct reference to the magistrates. Alexandre de Moraes and Luis Barroso, with whom he has a dispute.
“We cannot allow one or two men to threaten our democracy and our freedom,” he added.
On the events of September 7, convened throughout the country and with its epicenter in the capital Brasilia and Sao Paulo, where the presence of Bolsonaro is expected in both places, the governor pointed out: “Everyone will hear the cry of you .I authorize who they support “, without specifying the type of authorization.
However, despite the defiant tone, Bolsonaro dismissed the break with the Judiciary and the legislature, because “the responsibility towards each power, to analyze the action of these people who are harming the fate of Brazil.”