Brazil will choose between restoring democracy or continuing in barbarism, says Lula

The former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvafavorite for presidential election from sunday in Brazilaffirmed this Tuesday that the voters will have to define at the polls if they want the country to restore democracy or if they want it to remain barbaric.

“It is not a simple election that we will have on Sunday. Either we vote to restore democracy or we are going to remain in the barbarism that we are seeing,” affirmed the progressive leader when referring to the repeated attacks against the institutions of the current president, the far-right leader Jair Bolsonarowho is running for re-election.

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In a live broadcast on social networks in which he answered questions from young voters, the leader of the leftist Workers’ Party (PT) stated that the portrait of the Brazil The current episode was Sunday in which a former Bolsonarist deputy barricaded himself in his residence and shot at the police officers who tried to arrest him.

According to Lulathe behavior of former legislator Roberto Jefferson, arrested for his verbal attacks on institutions and democracy, is a reflection of what Bolsonaro proclaims among his followers.

“What happened in Brazil on Sunday was not a public security problem but a demonstration of the lack of respect for the institutions”he claimed.

The progressive leader said that never in his 50 years of politics had he heard someone utter the insults as rude as those that Jefferson hurled at one of the justices of the Supreme Court.

“What Bolsonaro says every day about the institutions, about the Supreme Court, about the magistrates, about Congress is inconceivable. The president has the habit of offending the institutions with words”, he claimed.

According to Lulathat lack of respect for institutions and democracy generated an anomaly that has to be corrected, and for this reason, he added, what will be at stake on Sunday is to opt for democracy or barbarism.

The former president said that, if he wins the elections, one of his first measures will be to end the policy of making the possession and carrying of weapons promoted by Bolsonaro more flexible.

“Apology to arms does not take anyone anywhere. What is at stake is whether we want to see children on television with a book or a machine gun in hand. Weapon does not educate. Weapon kills”, said.

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He assured that, due to the policy of Bolsonaro that allows the sale of weapons to the whole world, criminals no longer have to steal or smuggle weapons, since they can buy them on the market.

“On television we saw the arsenal that Roberto Jefferson had in his house and we also saw that, in the president’s own condominium, a neighbor, who was a militiaman (paramilitary), had 100 machine guns”said.

“That is why the first thing I will do is publish a decree to end the facilities to buy weapons,” added Lula, who won the first round of the presidential elections with 48.4% of the votes compared to 43.2% for Bolsonaro and who is the favorite for Sunday with 48% of the intention to vote compared to 44% of his rival.

Source: Elcomercio

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