President Jair Bolsonaro He spoke this Sunday, 27, at an event held by the Liberal Party (PL). The meeting, initially intended to trigger a politician’s pre-candidacy for re-election, was renamed “Affiliation Act” to avoid problems with the TSE. Despite this, Bolsonaro spoke as a candidate in a speech attacking the Labor Party and stating that the conflict in 2022 will be one between “good and evil”.
The event featured a rodeo audio commentary, dozens of Allies took to the podium and an official display of the “People’s Leader” logo. At first, the presenter invited the audience to pray our father.
The president took the stage after shaking hands with his supporters. He positioned himself alongside former President Fernando Collor de Mello and First Lady Michele Bolsonaro, surrounded by dozens of ministers, deputies and senators from the Allied base. The President of PL, Valdemar Costa Neto, announced the affiliation of Minister Marcos Pontes (Science and Technology), Joao Roma (Citizenship) and Senator Eduardo Gomez (Texas). The Secretary of Defense, Walter Braga Neto, as deputy on the presidential ticket, was expected to join the PL today, but he did not attend the event.
The government did not say why Braga Neto did not attend the event. Unofficially, Planalto’s sources say that the general will still decide which party he will join and that his presence on the podium can give the impression that it has already been determined that he will be the deputy ticket.
Bolsonaro spoke for thirty minutes and set the tone for what should be his campaign line: good versus evil, with the left being good and the left being evil.
The enemy is not external, it is internal. It’s not a left versus right fight. “It is a battle of good against evil,” he said. At another point, Bolsonaro declared that he only hopes to leave the presidency “very advanced,” “with a democratic and transparent standard,” he added, criticizing even without evidence the security of the electoral system and electronic voting machines.
Successor to Lula in the electoral polls, the governor, also without evidence, questioned the integrity of the polls that put Labor in the lead. “A false poll published a thousand times will not make the president of the republic.”
During his Christian speech, the president mentioned that in November 2014 something touched him and he began touring the country, determined to run for the presidency on his own. “In these wanderings, some people appeared on our side,” he said, adding that he had arrived at places “with a small retinue” and presented himself as a candidate.
He said that the re-election of Dilma Rousseff, “a person without charisma” “motivated him to search for” the Planalto Palace. He mentioned his vote in the decision to dismiss the former president, when the executioner described Carlos Alberto Brillhant Ostra as “awe of Dilma Rousseff.” “I could not allow an old friend who fought for democracy, and whose reputation was almost destroyed, not to fail (sic) to be mentioned at that moment.”
In his speech, Bolsonaro recounted his knife attack in 2018, blaming conservatives for the economic crisis and presenting himself as a defender of democracy. The president also returned to encourage exploration in indigenous lands and made veiled threats to the judiciary.
In the end, Senator Flavio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ) took the stage to “speak like a son,” saying his father was a “God-fearing family man” and referred to former President Lula as a “nine-toed liar”..
before the campaign
Initially, the event was designed to announce the official launch of Bolsonaro’s pre-candidacy for re-election. However, the party’s legal team warned of the possibility of appeal in the electoral courts because the campaign officially begins in August. However, yesterday, Bolsonaro told his supporters and journalists that this act would herald the start of his election campaign.