Simone Tebbetthe senator, who came third in last Sunday’s presidential elections in Brazil, announced this Wednesday that she will give up his support for Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to the ballot against Jair Bolsonaro.
The candidate of the Brazilian Democratic Movement got 4.16% of the votes in the first round. He thus joins Ciro Gomes, who was fourth with 3.04% and has already anticipated his support for Lula.
“I will give my vote” to Lula because “I recognize his commitment to democracy and the Constitution,” Tebet said in a statement in a hotel in the city of São Paulo. And he slipped a criticism of Bolsonaro: “Which I don’t know in the current President.”
The bishop of the MDB, from the center-right, was the big surprise of the first round, overtaking Gomes and finishing on the last step of the podium, behind Lula (48.43%) and Bolsonaro (43.2%).
Now yours nearly 5 million votes (4,915,423 votes) could be decisive for Lula, who on October 30 will dispute the presidency with the current president, Jair Bolsonaro.
Why Tebet supports Lula
Already on Sunday evening, when the counting of the votes had yet to be completed, the senator had anticipated that she had made a decision in view of the second round of the presidential elections in Brazil.
“We will soon make the decision why mine is already taken; I have a position and I will speak at the right time “, she just said on that occasion.
Less than 72 hours later, Tebet delivered a strong pro-Lula e against Bolsonaro. And also explained the reason why of his pronouncement.
She assured that, despite some party colleagues asking her to remain neutral, she cannot be “omitted” at this “so serious” moment of the history of Brazil, a country “divided by hate speech, ideological polarization and power disputes”.
This is why he stressed that until Sunday 30, the day of the ballot, he will continue “on the street, on alert”, since he believes that the country must be “rebuilt” after almost four years in which the country “was abandoned in bonfire of hatred and denial “ of the coronavirus pandemic, held Bolsonaro with new questions.
even done remarks to Lula: he criticized him for asking for a useful vote in the first round “without submitting proposals” to solve Brazil’s problems and asked that some of his initiatives be included in the platform.
In this sense, he cited his plan to eliminate the waiting list in early childhood education, also finish the list of examinations and surgeries delayed by Covid, and solve the problems of the most indebted families.
In addition, he asked to sanction a law of equal pay for men and womenwhich is now stuck in Congress.
In case of victory of Lula da Silva, he asked for the formation of a cabinet “plural, with men, women, blacks, people with disabilitieshaving competence, ethics and willingness to serve as requirements, “he suggested.
The position of the party of Ciro Gomes, in favor of Lula da Silva in Brazil
The Democratic Party of Labor which led as a candidate to Ciro Gomes announced his support for Lula on Tuesday. This was confirmed by Carlos Lupi, president of the party, after a meeting of the authorities of that political space.
The decision has been made “unanimous”to support “what’s closest, which is Lula’s candidacy,” explained Lupi.
Some time later, Gomes posted a video on his Twitter account to express his “support” for the determination of the PDL.
“He supported the decision, given the circumstances. I am sorry that the situation is putting the Brazilians on board faced with two unsatisfactory options“, complained that he occupied the Ministry of National Integration in the first three years of the presidency of the PT referent.
Gomes collected 3,599,287 votes on Sunday, placing him in fourth place, behind the third place expected by the polls.
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Source: Clarin
