Both the former president and his presidential candidate have condemned attempts to boycott current President Jair Bolsonaro’s next election. | Photo: Twitter/@LulaOficial.
The Workers’ Party (PT) and the Socialist Party of Brazil (PSB) have made official the formula for the presidential candidacy of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Geraldo Alckmin during the latter party’s congress in the southern hotel sector of Brasilia.
The electoral formula, which according to all polls will prevail as the favorite for the next elections, was approved unanimously and in the presence of both candidates, MPs from both parties and other political parties forming the coalition supporting former President Lula.
In this sense, the national president of the PSB, Carlos Siqueira, avoided the announcement that “in the name of simplicity, discretion, competence and capacity of Governor Geraldo Alckmin will form the Vice-Presidency of the Republic with President Luiz Inacio Lula von Silva.
For his part, Lula confirmed the support of the signers of the Manifesto for Democracy, which already has almost 400,000 signatures and will be read on August 11 at the USP Law School in Largo de São Francisco, a center of São Paulo.
💬🚩 “The consecration of the Lula Alckmin badge is historic because it symbolizes the union of the PSB and PT for democracy with the progressive parties. We cannot give ourselves the right to lose these elections.
👉 Confirm the speech of the President of the PSB, Carlos Siqueira: https://t.co/9ebOMLePSN
— National PSB 40 (@PSBNacional40) July 30, 2022
He added: “I never thought that at 76 years of age and with more than 50 years of membership in the trade union movement and in the parties, I would see a President of the Republic lying to the ambassadors and giving a false impression of what is going on in Brazil’s democracy.” electronic ballot boxes is at risk. The idea that these elections are being stolen,” referring to President Jair Bolsonaro’s maneuvers in attempting to boycott the elections.
“This country will only thrive if it grows back to create more jobs and better wages,” Lula said while slamming the current executive branch for worsening hunger and unemployment in this South American country.
While Alckmin said: “It’s about time Bolsonaro left. Your time is up. Their ideas and their concepts do not serve the country. His lies don’t hold anymore. His cunning plan against democracy has failed. And the ballot box will cleanse Brazil of all the evil it has done.”
“This country will only grow again. It will grow, it will grow soon, or GDP will grow, we will distribute income” 📈🇧🇷 @LulaOfficial at the PSB National Convention
help well #tvPT: https://t.co/2orMGGernF pic.twitter.com/2MQqW31ssS
– PT Brazil (@ptbrasil) July 30, 2022
Meanwhile, PCdoB deputy Jandira Feghali, vice-president, said of the Lula Alckmin union that “it was a construction that expresses the maturity of all these parties at this moment in which we live. It’s not an easy moment, it’s not an easy moment, but it took an open mind, an expansive mind to build that unity, which more than anything else is a necessity for Brazil and for those who have love for our and our people Country.”
Lula, Elmano and Camilo found a great one in Fortaleza. Let’s go together Haar Ceará and Haar Brazil https://t.co/mvKzC0HJQu
— Lula (@LulaOficial) July 30, 2022
During the appointment it emerged that Andreia Nunes decided to withdraw her candidacy to express her support for the Lula Alckmin formula; as well as various political sectors and Congress, which for their part have expressed their dissatisfaction with the decisions and attitudes of the current head of state, Jair Bolsonaro.
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(Adopted from Telesur)