In a neighborhood near the administrative district of Brasilia, a whole family, father, mother and three children, walk in a row, all with a yellow jersey. “Those are Jair Bolsonaro’s voters,” the taxi driver told the reporter.
“Let’s see where Lula is … There is that couple, they don’t have the vermelha (red) jersey but they have PT shields”. The very young girl wears a top where she is The face of Lula da Silva. His partner has it on his shirt too.
Behind them, among three other yellow jerseys, are two red jerseys. They almost walk together. “Three by two,” says the taxi driver with a smile, who seems amused by the observation of who is voting for whom.
In Brazil, people not only speak openly about who they elect, but also bring s to the polling stationspartisan symbols or well-identified clothing of your preferences. Hence the colors of the jerseys as a flag. The campaign does not stop here at any time.
Close to this bourgeois neighborhood in the southern part of the capital is the headquarters of the Higher Electoral Court, which has the task of supervising the election and determining its results. The building with a large park in front of it, characteristic of the city, it is fenced with police patrols that allow entry only to authorized personnel.
There is a fear of accidents in this country the enormous polarization which reached the elections and the previous history of violence. The same precautions were taken with the rest of the judicial structure, especially the Supreme Court and the government area.
The city is very quiet with few people on the car-free streets this Sunday. There are only crowds at the doors of the schools. After visiting two other schools in mid-level areas, we arrived in the satellite city of Paranoa, about 40 minutes from the capital.
It is an area of lower middle class or rather poor. The place is much less well-kept than in the city center. The houses are all very similar, there are hardly any tall buildings, you can see many old and deteriorated cars and the streets are littered with propaganda ballot papers.
The reporter visits a very humble school in the city, very crowded, where the taxi driver voted. It is an old building, an elementary school.
There are queues in almost all the classrooms and yellow shirts also proliferate along with less red ones. “I was here an hour and a half to vote,” she says. Presentism and data of interest.
The reporter took a taxi driver, faithful follower of Bolsonaro. It is not strange. This union, like that of the truckers, has a strong affinity with the sovereign. The man is also an evangelist, which adds another explanation to his favoritism.
His name is Reinaldo, he is young, polite and nice. And tolerant. He does not comment against the street fans of Lula da Silva.
Reinaldo is convinced of this the polls “are badly done, they only investigate sectors that will give them the result that Lula wins ”.
In his opinion before the end of the elections, there is no room for a second round and Bolsonaro will win. His vision includes all the discursive precautions and warnings of the president regarding the PT leader’s communist inclination and allegedly high destructive capacity.
-Why is Bolsonaro better than Lula?
-Lula has been wreaking havoc here since 2002 (the first PT government). She is like Cristina in your country. Bolsonaro, with all the problems he has had, ordered the country.
Reinaldo is passionate, he does not dwell on the details for his argument, but he does not believe in the transparency of the elections. He says the courts and the electronic voting system are dangerous. “They were hacked for eight months,” he says, repeating an old falsehood spread by Bolsonarism. “All the judges were nominated by Lula”, he says, nodding in resignation.
He points around him, pointing out that this universe of yellow shirts proves that he and not the polls are right.
-And what happens if Bolsonaro doesn’t win?
-These people will not comply. He will get angry. This election is a soccer world championship for us, like a match between Argentina and Brazil. People will not accept any results.
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Source: Clarin
