Labor Day in Brazil turns into street election campaign – MercoPress

In Brazil, Labor Day is turning into a street election campaign

Sunday’s demonstrations in Brazil for Labor Day had political connotations, and mass events across the country rallied left – wing supporters of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on the one hand and supporters of right-wing Jair Bolsanaro on the other.

Lula, who ruled the country between 2003 and 2010, five months before the October 2 election, is still the preferred candidate, with a majority of 43% of the vote.

In cities such as Fortaleza, Recife, Belo Horizonte and Rio de Janeiro, the first marches on Sunday morning were quiet, where Lula’s supporters gathered in the Park Do Flamenco, near the city center, while the Bolsonarists gathered in front of the Copacabana beach.

Protests in Brasilia also began in the morning. In front of the Bolzano National Congress, Alameda Das appeared in amazement at noon in Banderas. However he acknowledged that their numbers were not enough to defeat President Conte’s government. , According to G1, between military intervention and posters and speeches calling for an attack on the Federal Supreme Court (STF, Supreme Court).

Lula was the keynote speaker at the event, which was organized by the union centers CUT, Fuerza Sindical, UGT, CTB, NCST, Intersindical Central de la Clase Trabajadora and Central de Empleos Públicos.

In his speech in Charles Miller Square in Sao Paulo, Lula said, “Someone better than that president (Bolzano) will win the election.” “We have to wage an immeasurable struggle to reduce inflation and turn inflation into higher wages so that people can eat and live well,” he added.

Lula also apologized for saying that “Paulsonaro only wants the police.”

“Paulsonaro only wants the army, I told him he doesn’t like the people, and he only wants the police, he doesn’t like the people,” he explained.

“I want to take this opportunity and apologize to the police because they have done wrong many times, but many times they have saved so many working people that we have to treat them as workers,” Lula added.

Bolsanaro supporters in S பாo Paulo staged their own rally on Ballista Avenue, while Lula’s Labor Party (PT) held its own march in the federal capital.

Brazil will hold general elections on October 2, in which Bolsanaro looks forward to re-election, but so far all ballot-based polls have given Lula a solid lead.