Presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), at an event with popular movements in São Paulo this Friday (27), asked Colombians to vote for presidential candidate Gustavo Petro, a senator and former member of the guerrilla group. M-19, which is in first place in the polls for the election in Colombia, whose first round will be this Sunday (29).
Lula said that he “doesn’t like to give his opinion on another country’s politics”, but he led a chorus, asking the audience present to repeat his words: “We, Brazilian workers, students, representatives of all social movements in Brazil.. We want to ask the working people of Colombia, the students of Colombia, the social movements of Colombia, all those who defend democracy that on the day of the Colombian election, next Sunday, the people could vote for comrade Gustavo Petro for president of Colombia “.
According to the PT, the election of Petro, who has a left-wing agenda, and his own in Brazil will enable “the union of the countries of South America”, to “build a strong South America, with political integration, economic and cultural integration, so that we have a very strong bloc to negotiate with other blocs around the world”. “Gustavo Petro is certain that Colombia will be democratic after the elections,” added Lula.
At another point, PT provoked President Jair Bolsonaro because of the Datafolha* poll, published this Thursday (26), which placed him 21 percentage points ahead of the president. “I imagine Bolsonaro didn’t sleep last night,” he said. During the event, he also stated that, if elected, his government will “demarcate the lands [indígenas] that have to be demarcated and put an end to illegal mining on indigenous lands”.
*Datafolha interviewed 2,556 voters between the 25th and 26th of May in 181 cities. The survey was commissioned by the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper and is registered with the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) under protocol BR-05166/2022. The margin of error is plus or minus two percentage points, and the confidence level is 95%.
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