Brasilia, 14 Oct (Prensa Latina) Former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva today described far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro as ignorant, who, without knowing how to govern, neglected to prioritize the anti-Covid-19 vaccine and triggered the death toll in Brazil.
“That citizen (Bolsonaro) does not govern this country. He neglected the vaccine. If he had stopped being ignorant and talked with science and followed the World Health Organization, we would have many fewer deaths (about 700,000) “from Covid-19, said Lula in Pernambuco, the (northeastern) state where he was born. and he is gone. at the age of seven fleeing drought and famine.
The candidate for president of the Workers’ Party (PT) for the second round of elections on October 30, has promised that, if elected, his first act will be to meet all the governors to listen to priorities. And then the mayors of the capitals.
“We need to discuss the issues together and what needs to be done,” he said.
Showing confidence in his victory at the polls, Lula sent a message to Bolsonaro, who “no longer governs and travels alone, telling lies”.
He will have to have the humility to pass the presidential sash in January 2023, when the power transfer ceremony takes place, he predicted.
In the Pernambuco area, a crowd accompanied the former mechanical turner and state government candidate Marília Arraes (Solidarity Party) through the streets of Recife.
According to the portal lula.com.br, the presence of the former worker leader made the term Recife, capital of the state, one of the most commented on this Friday on the social network Twitter.
It indicates that the big party has followed the example of other events with the presence of the PT leader this week, such as Rio de Janeiro (in Belford Purple and in the Complexo do Alemão), Salvador, Aracaju and Maceió.
On the other hand, underlines the site, in the same capital of Pernambuco, a small number of supporters went yesterday to the Bolsonaro concentration in front of the beach of Boa Viagem.
“The frustration of the president, who failed to mask the impact of the fiasco, was visible,” reports the digital page.
Lula, who won 48.4 percent of the votes in the first round, will face Bolsonaro, a candidate of the Liberal Party who aspires to be re-elected and was the second most voted on October 2, with 43.2 percent of the vote. .
None of the candidates for power obtained in that first round an absolute majority of the votes, that is, more than half of the valid ones (excluding gaps and null votes), as established by Brazilian legislation to be elected.
