(Reuters) – First lady Michelle Bolsonaro said on Saturday that she is being targeted by a “persecution” and that one woman is trying to silence another, in an indirect reference to MDB candidate Simone Tebet during a campaign event alongside of her husband and candidate for reelection, Jair Bolsonaro (PL), aimed at the female audience.
“The persecution is clear when a woman says she has to vote for a woman. When a woman says she can be wherever she wants; when a woman says that she has freedom of expression, but that in a little while she will go to court and try to silence another woman,” she said.
The first lady’s speech refers to the fact that the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), at the request of the coalition led by Simone Tebet, ordered the Bolsonaro campaign to suspend the broadcast of a 30-second insertion in which Michelle extolled, in video, the delivery of the work for the transposition of the São Francisco River.
Sought after, Simone Tebet’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Michelle’s presence in Bolsonaro’s official propaganda had been her debut on radio and TV and had come after the serious mistake, according to sources from the reelection candidate’s own campaign, in statements about women during the debate on Sunday night.
The president’s campaign, which is at a disadvantage in polls, seeks to exploit the participation of the first lady in order to reduce the rejection of Bolsonaro among women, the largest slice of the Brazilian electorate. The team also wants to increase the president’s advantage among the evangelical electorate, already registered in the polls, also trying to expand it to the religious electorate.
At the Saturday event, Michelle – who is an evangelical – said that Christians do need to talk about politics so that “tomorrow” we can “talk about Jesus”.
(Reporting by Ricardo Brito)
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