The Labor Party (PT) presidential candidate ran in Rio de Janeiro and four locations in the Northeast such as Bahia, Sergipe, Alagoas and Pernambuco.
The idea of the former labor leader’s campaign officials was to gain a foothold in Rio and extend the lead over far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro, his election opponent, in the northeastern states.
“We will resume social inclusion programs and bring culture to Rio de Janeiro. And we will create friendly cities again, because there is no use if the country is good and the cities are bad,” said the PT leader, who visited the community of Belford Roxo in Baixada Fluminense and the community The complex German.
The former labor leader approved the tour after previously sweeping crowds at walks and rallies in the regions of Sao Bernardo do Campo, Guarulhos, Campinas, all in Sao Paulo and in Belo Horizonte, the state capital of Minas Gerais (southeast).
For the Labor Party, elections are won in the streets and it is necessary to occupy squares and avenues to guarantee electoral victory.
As part of his tour, Lula would later lead public events and marches in capital cities such as Aracaju (Sergipe State), Maceió (Alagoas), and Recife (Pernambuco), all in the Northeast.
“This citizen (Bolsonaro) does not rule this country. He neglected the vaccination. If he had stopped being ignorant and chatted to science and followed the World Health Organization, we would have had far fewer deaths (about 700,000) from Covid-19, said the former trade unionist in Pernambuco, the state where he was born and Seven years fleeing drought and famine.
Lula expressed confidence in his election victory and sent a message to Bolsonaro that “he no longer governs and only travels and tells lies”.
He will have to have the humility to present me with the presidential sash in January 2023, when the transfer of power takes place, he predicted.
Lula, who received 48.4 percent of the vote in the first ballot, faces Bolsonaro, a Liberal Party candidate seeking re-election who was the second-most popular on Oct. 2 with 43.2 percent of the vote.
None of the candidates for power obtained in this first round of voting the absolute majority of votes, ie more than half of the valid votes (excluding blanks and zero votes), as required by Brazilian legislation to be elected.
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