The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, questioned This Friday, the recent survey of voting intentions by the Datafolha Institute gives an advantage of 21 percentage points to his opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, ahead of the general elections in October.
“It’s a scoundrel,” said Bolsonaro during his weekly program that broadcasts live through his social networks about the results of the survey, mainly when it shows the performance of the candidates in specific groups, such as that of the evangelicals.
In that group, one of the few in which the president would be at the head, Bolsonaro appears with 39% of the voting intentions, over 36% of Lula, which, in the opinion of the current head of state, does not reflect the reality of the evangelicals who are against abortion and the gender ideology proposed by his left-wing rival.
“I know that I am not unanimous in any place, but, for example, if they did the survey with the Armed Forces, they are not going to say that the military is divided or that the police are also divided, “said the former Army captain.
The Datafolha survey on Thursday that Lula went upstairs. from 43% to 48% in voting intentions in the first round, while Bolsonaro only advanced from 26% to 27%.
Bolsonaro attacked also against the magistrate of the Supreme Court Edson Fachin, also president of the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE).
“He was a leftist militant and lawyer for the MST (Movement of the Rural Workers Without Land) and took out Lula from jail to be president of the Republic,” he asserted.
Similarly, Bolsonaro, whose allied base has been prosecuted for disseminating and spreading false news, criticized The proposal for the regularization of media and social networks proposed by Lula, who governed the country. He entered the country between 2003 and 2010 for two terms.
“Mr. Lula wants to regulate the press and social networks. The regulation of the media and social networks will lead us to a prison outside a cell,” he said.
“It will not be possible to We will be a vegetable, we will not be able to publish an opinion, a photo, make comments, because we could be surprised with a (judicial) process”, he added, who gave as an example the conviction of the pro-government deputy Daniel Silveira, for threats against democracy and the Supreme Court.
“A short time ago we had an imprisoned federal deputy, even if he was aggressive in what he said, but sentenced to nine years in prison and to begin Closed regime, can you imagine what would happen to you?” he asked.
After the Supreme Court’s conviction of Silveira last April, Bolsonaro, as of the next, he protected himself. in constitutional faculties as president of the Republic and granted I pardon the congressman.
“The goal is to shut us up” and “this project seeks to economically strengthen the traditional press and guarantee a monopoly on information,” he stressed.