Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said this Thursday that if the left wins in the country’s next elections, scheduled for October 2022, he will never leave power and call USA become an isolated country.
“The losers will be the people of Brazil and the left itself. The whole of South America will be painted red, you know what I mean, and the United States will become an isolated country, ”said the President of Brazil in an interview with the TV channel. Fox collected by the newspaper ‘O Globo’.
In this sense, he pointed out that his election in 2018 “was almost a miracle” and that if the left returns to the presidency, referring to the former president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva”never leave power” and Brazil “He will follow the same path as Venezuela, Argentina, Chile and Colombia.”
With a little over a hundred days left before the election, the Brazilian president is still far from being the first choice among Brazilians, as evidenced by the latest Datafolha poll, which gives him 34 percent of voting intentions, a far cry from the 57 percent that the former would have had. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva if the two faced each other in the second round of this election.
Under all possible scenarios, President Bolsonaro will be defeated, even if in the second round he faces Democratic Labor Party (PDT) candidate Ciro Gomes, who wins with 51 percent of the vote, leaving the remaining head of state with 37 percent of the vote. support percentage.
The government has faced more than one episode of exhaustion in recent weeks, especially following the latest announcement of a further increase in fuel prices, criticism of the search for the bodies of native Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips, and now most recently the arrest of former education minister Milton Ribeiro.
On October 2, 2022, a general election is held in Brazil, which will determine not only the new president of the country, but also 27 governors and senators, 513 federal deputies and 1059 state deputies. If the first round is necessary for the election of the head of state, then it will take place on October 30.
Brazil is ‘working’ to grant asylum to Jeanine Agnes
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said he was “working” to grant asylum to former Bolivian President Jeanine Añez, who was sentenced to prison for violating duties and resolutions that were unconstitutional when she took power in 2019.
“Brazil is putting into practice the issue of international relations, human rights, to see if it will offer him asylum” if “the government of Bolivia agrees,” the president said in an interview given to an Internet channel.
Bolsonaro said he had discussed the possibility with other South American leaders, among whom he named Argentine President Alberto Fernandez, with whom he said he discussed Agnes’s situation at the recent Summit of the Americas.
(According to Europa Press and AFP)
Source: RPP
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