Bolsonaro called for “extirpating Lula from public life” before a crowd

The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, asked to “extirpate from public life” his main electoral rival for October 2, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in front of hundreds of thousands of people on the beach of Copacabana, in the framework of an electoral act and military tributes for the bicentennial of Independence. Along with his vice presidential candidate, retired General Walter Braga Neto, Bolsonaro said: “Compare Brazil with Venezuela, with what is happening now in Argentina and with Nicaragua; they are friends of the nine-fingered bandit who deputizes the election, these kinds of people have to be extirpated from public life, they have nothing in their heads.” The president of the South American giant called on the population to military against the possible return of a leftist government to Brazil, within the framework of Independence Day, a holiday, in Rio de Janeiro.

In this way, Bolsonaro highlighted the issues on the agenda he leads such as the non-legalization of abortion, the rejection of the legalization of drugs and respect for private property. He also took aim at the president of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal and judge of the Supreme Federal Court for ordering raids on the homes of 8 Bolsonarista business tycoons.” I was in Brasilia a while ago with the businessmen accused of unjustly coup plotters. We stand by these people who had their privacy violated. We want Brazilians to have more and more freedom to be able to decide their future,” he concluded.

Original source in Spanish