On Friday, September 9 at 19:30 GMT:
Brazilians will head to the polls on October 2 in a presidential election pushed by two veteran candidates: far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and former center-left president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
With Lula main within the polls, some analysts are saying the potential return to a Lula administration is emblematic of fatigue with Bolsonaro’s presidency following a response to COVID-19 pandemic that left the nation with one of many highest dying tolls on this planet, additional deforestation of the Amazon at a second when wildfire season reaches new information, and persistent financial frustrations and issues round meals insecurity in a rustic as soon as lauded for its financial progress.
Bolsonaro stays in style with a robust base amongst rich and conservative voters in addition to business-leaders. He introduced his candidacy with a speech targeted on God, weapons and household at a launch ceremony on the finish of July. In the meantime, Lula is main within the polls amongst girls, low revenue, and Black Brazilians and has been described as “campaigning on a message of a return to normalcy, decency, and the great years of his presidency.” Lula’s return to politics has been anticipated following a 2021 Supreme Courtroom choice to annul a controversial corruption conviction in 2018 that noticed Lula spend 580 days in jail. Though the costs had been overturned, Bolsonaro and his critics proceed to stage accusations of “huge corruption” in opposition to the previous president, most not too long ago within the first presidential debate.
As campaigning proceeds, election-watchers are elevating the alarm over President Bolsonaro’s ongoing assaults on Brazil’s electoral techniques which they are saying might end in a swirl of misinformation and disinformation that might flame election integrity points within the occasion of an in depth consequence. Human Rights Watch has known as this election a “important check for democracy and the rule of legislation within the nation and in Latin America.”
On this episode of The Stream we check out the 2 main candidates in Brazil’s presidential election, their key marketing campaign points and what’s at stake for Brazilians.
On this episode of The Stream, we’re joined by:
Ilona Szabó de Carvalho @IlonaSzaboC
Co-founder & President, Igarapé Institute
Adriana Schumacher @sfliberty
Brazilian Applications Supervisor, College students for Liberty
Cecilia Tornaghi @ctornaghi
Managing Editor, Americas Quarterly
