Thursday, March 28

Pedro Sánchez and Yolanda Díaz send their support to Lula for the Brazilian elections: “It is the moment of hope”


Brazil chooses this Sunday between two opposing models of the country: either the continuity as president of the far-right Jair Bolsonaro or the alternative of the former leftist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. There is less than a week left for the second round of the presidential elections in the country and most of the world’s progressive leaders are launching messages of support for Lula. The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, and his second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, have sent two messages to the former president to support him in this final stretch of the campaign in which both rivals are closer than ever in the polls.

“I want to send all my support to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in this election in this land so united to Spain. Brazil is the largest economy in Ibero-America and his voice is essential,” said Sánchez in a video shared by the Brazilian politician on their social networks. For the head of the Spanish Government, Brazil must decide between “openness to the world” or the “mistrust” that Bolsonaro embodies; between “hate and climate denialism” preached by the far-right president or “the door to hope” that Lula will open, in his opinion. “Brazil deserves Lula. Your triumph will be that of progressives from all over the world,” Sánchez predicted.

“Thank you, my friend Pedro Sánchez. The world needs a sovereign Brazil, in dialogue with the world, that generates jobs and does not deny science. A big hug,” the Workers’ Party candidate thanked him, despite the fact that defeated Bolsonaro by more than six million votes in the first round of the presidential elections, held a month ago, has seen how the current president has closed the gap in the polls in recent weeks in a campaign finale that anticipates very close elections . One of the latest polls, the prestigious Datafolha, from the newspaper La Folha de São Paulo, gave the former president 49% of the support and 45% for the current president, a scenario close to a technical tie if one considers the margin of error of the poll.

Yolanda Díaz has also joined in the good wishes for the leftist next Sunday. The Minister of Labor has recalled that the model that Lula defends is based on “the fight against the climate emergency and the protection of working people” and that what he faces is “the degradation of democracy for the benefit of a few” . “It’s not just about overcoming the fear of Bolsonaro, it’s about winning a Brazil for everyone,” defended the vice president, who has sent a big hug to the former president of the first economy in Latin America and the eighth in the world.

Lula and Sánchez met in November of last year at the Moncloa Palace as part of a tour that the former Brazilian president made through several European countries, with the aim of strengthening ties with different progressives with their sights set on a candidacy at that time. that everyone already took for granted, although Lula had not made it official. As EFE recalls, the PT and the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) have also held virtual dialogues in recent months on possible improvements in the labor legislation of the South American country if Lula finally comes to power on January 1 with a victory on Sunday. .

For this, he will have to beat a Bolsonaro on the rise in the polls and who has obtained the support of none other than Donald Trump in recent weeks. Several of the allies of the former president of the United States, such as Steve Bannon, have spent weeks spreading hoaxes about alleged electoral rigging.

In general, most polls in recent days point to a victory for the vermelha (red) formation. The survey by the Ipec institute affirms that the former president has 50% of the intention to vote, compared to the 43% obtained by the far-right. In the first round, the polls were correct that Lula would be in first place and Bolsonaro in second, but they calculated that the leader of the extreme right would obtain between 6 and 7 points less than what he finally received at the polls, which leads to the analysts to think that, once again, in this second round the polls may be underestimating the possibilities of the current president.



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