The candidate of the Workers’ Party (PT) in these Brazilian elections, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has reached out to his rivals after his possible victory and promised that he will seek to «harmonize» Brazilian society.
«What is the role of the president? To harmonize society. The elections are over, there are no more Bolsonaristas, no more Lulistas, no more Petistas. The elections are over and we have a country», said Lula in an interview reported by the G1 portal.
In this sense, he assured that in case of winning this Sunday, once everything is over, he will forget about the electoral process and promised that «there will be no fight» and he will not feed hatred. «I want parents to talk to their children again», he said in reference to the family distancing during the campaign.
However, although Lula has promised to build bridges in case of victory, he has emphasized the need to go to vote this Sunday since «democracy» is at stake against «barbarism» and «fascism» represented by his rival, the still president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro.
Faced with the way to relate to one of the most conservative congresses of the last decades in case of winning, Lula has said that «it is necessary to talk» with all the names of the House and Senate, even citing figures of Bolsonarism that over the years have been related to governments of one or the other sign, as Ciro Nogueira, Minister of the Civil House.
Thus, he recalled that «Nogueira is with Bolsonaro today,» but he was with former presidents Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Fernando Collor de Mello, and even with himself. «You have to talk to who has been elected,» he concluded.
Lula also had the opportunity to respond again to one of the questions that have been thrown at him since Senator Simone Tebet, third choice among Brazilians in the first round, announced that she would support him in the final round, the question of whether he will hold any position in his future government, about which nothing is yet known.
«Every day I am asked that question. Simone has many qualities. She can occupy any ministry. What is the problem? That I haven’t talked to anyone yet. I have many people in my head, but I didn’t talk because I don’t want to sit before winning the elections», he explained.
BOLSONARO BETS ALL ON MINAS GERAIS The latest polls published this week continue to put former president Lula ahead of a Bolsonaro who seems to have stagnated after several weeks in which it seemed that he could get closer to his rival. The latest poll puts the PT candidate seven points ahead, a difference that is unbridgeable just three days before the October 30 elections.
In the final stretch of these elections, Bolsonaro’s team has focused its efforts on gathering votes in Minas Gerais, a state with the second largest electoral census in the country and a scenario whose results have traditionally been a reflection of what will happen at the federal level.
All presidents elected since 1989 have had a majority of votes in Minas Gerais, the only state in the southeast–Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Espírito Santo–where Bolsonaro failed to beat Lula in the first round. In this final round, the Genial/Quaest poll gives the PT candidate a voting intention of 45 percent, five percentage points more than the Brazilian president.
