By Ricardo Brito and Rodrigo Viga Gaier
BRASÍLIA/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) used the ruse of promising to raise the minimum wage to 1,400 reais if re-elected, but was generally unable to speak out of the Bolsonarista bubble in the last debate before the presidential election. second round of the presidential race, sources in the re-election campaign said.
According to one of the sources, the message that he will boost the minimum wage next year “was the rabbit in the hat”, after Bolsonaro faced difficulties with information that the economic team would intend to de-index the readjustment of the minimum from the increase in inflation next year. .
According to this source, the instant evaluation of the debate made by the campaign – the so-called tracking – was positive for the candidate for reelection.
Shortly after Bolsonaro’s speech about the minimum wage, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ), one of his campaign coordinators, published an image of Bolsonaro with the promised amount on social media and was followed by allies.
This readjustment, however, is not included in the budget piece for the next year that is being processed in Congress, in which the minimum forecast is 1,302 reais.
The two sources consider that the president did well in exposing what they call the lies of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) during the debate. Despite this, according to one of these sources, the president again failed to speak beyond his loyal constituency in the debate.
“It was zero sum, it couldn’t turn over,” said this source. Bolsonaro appears between five and six percentage points behind Lula in polls for voting in Sunday’s election.
A third campaign source said Bolsonaro did not do well in the first two blocks of the debate. He said it was too repetitive and lackluster, citing the fact that he never wanted to do media training. “If you don’t train, you don’t learn to play,” he said.
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