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BOLSONARO'S STATEMENT: Jair Bolsonaro that the Worker’s Party (PT) could be benefited by the electoral fraud through the manipulation of the polls, the recently inaugurated president of the STF again positions itself in an absolutely suspicious and tendentious way.
Huge protests in Brazil as Bolsonaro returns home
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Huge protests in Brazil as far-right presidential hopeful returns home
Demonstrations held against Jair Bolsonaro’s extremist stance ahead of election
Aerial view of a demonstration against presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro.
Photograph: Miguel chincariol/AFP/Getty Images
The homecoming of Brazil’s far-right presidential frontrunner Jair
Bolsonaro from hospital was upstaged this weekend by huge demonstrations
as concerns over his authoritarian tendencies grew.
Bolsonaro flew from São Paulo to his home in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, three weeks after being stabbed during campaigning,
while tens of thousands of women filled the streets in cities across
Brazil to protest against his extremist positions ahead of the 7 October
election.
The G1 news site reported anti-Bolsonaro protests in all Brazil’s 27
states grew out of a Facebook group called Women United Against
Bolsonaro which nearly 4 million people have joined. Pro-Bolsonaro
demonstrations took place in 16 states, the site said. The piauí
magazine website called the demonstrations “historic” and printed a
photo of an enormous crowd in São Paulo which organisers claimed half a
million attended, though police did not provide an estimate.
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In Rio the huge crowds that filled the city centre were notable for
their diversity – with women of all ages, many of whom had brought
children, male and LGBT demonstrators, chanting “not him”, an
anti-Bolsonaro hashtag that has become a campaign slogan shared by
celebrities like Madonna.
Many demonstrators expressed concerns over Bolsonaro’s declaration in
a television interview on Friday that he would not accept any election
result he did not win because of his endorsement of the military
dictatorship which ran Brazil for two decades.
Flavia Carvalho, 40, a civil servant, carried a “not him” banner
designed around an Adolf Hitler cartoon. “He is preaching fascism,” she
said. Others said they were protesting against the sexist, racist and
homophobic views Bolsonaro has expressed.
“He
is sexist. He is misogynist. He is racist,” said Ana Paulo Gonçalves,
24, a teacher. “He wants to go back to the military dictatorship,” said
her sister Christine, 29, a designer.
Bolsonaro, a former army captain and veteran lawmaker, currently
leads polling for a first-round vote on 7 October. Running second is
Fernando Haddad, a former mayor of São Paulo who took the place of
formidably popular former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva after
Lula’s candidacy was barred because he is serving a prison sentence for
graft. Bolsonaro and Haddad are expected to face off in a run-off vote
on 28 October.
Making adept use of WhatsApp and social media, Bolsonaro has built
support across Brazil, attacking Lula’s Workers’ party for its
involvement in a huge graft scheme and espousing a hardline approach to
law and order. His views have resonated with Brazilians angry and
fearful over endemic corruption and rising violent crime. Supporters
stage drive-by demonstrations, racing through towns across Brazil in
convoys of cars and motorbikes, waving flags and blasting horns.
In a television interview broadcast on Friday, Bolsonaro suggested Brazil’s armed forces could intervene if his main rivals, the leftist Workers’ party, “committed a foul” in the election.
“I don’t accept an election that is not me being elected,” Bolsonaro told reporter José Datena, adding that Brazil’s electronic voting system could be defrauded by the Workers’ party, but providing no evidence.
Bolsonaro enjoys widespread support among police and the military. His vice-presidential candidate, Gen Hamilton Mourão, unnerved Brazilians recently when he said in a situation of “anarchy”, a president could declare an “auto-coup”. Both men praise the military dictatorship that ran Brazil from 1964-1985, torturing and executing opponents.
“I lived [during] this phase,” said Maria do Carmo, 84, who was protesting in Rio and saw relatives imprisoned by the military regime. “It was terrible.”
On Sunday, the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper called on both leading candidates to make a commitment to democracy, accusing Bolsonaro of “stimulating paranoias of manipulation” and criticising the Workers’ party for its attacks on the justice system for Lula’s imprisonment it calls politically motivated.
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