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Alex Solnik, a journalist, is the author of "The Day I Met Brilhante Ustra" (Geração Editorial).

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Bolsonaro is a dictatorship, and dictatorship is wage suppression.

"Financial scandals, soaring inflation, misery. That's what Bolsonaro wants to bring back. And only Lula can stop him," writes columnist Alex Solnik.

Bolsonaro is a dictatorship, and wage stagnation is a dictatorship (Photo: ABR | Arivaldo Chaves/Divulgação | Oliven Rai/Mídia Ninja)

By Alex Solnik, for 247

The PT campaign embraced the moral agenda, but forgot the most important thing. 

Bolsonaro is a defender of the return of the military dictatorship, which was a period of wage suppression and persecution of workers. Raising wages was out of the question. Strikes were punishable by imprisonment and torture.

I hope the campaign uses the 184 radio and TV spots to set aside these issues of cannibalism, genocide, pedophilia, and religion, and focus on the important relationship between politics and economics.

The campaign needs to show the difference between democracy and dictatorship. And what the economic situation was like during the dictatorship. Financial scandals, soaring inflation, misery.

That's what Bolsonaro wants to bring back.

Only Lula can stop it.

* This is an opinion article, the responsibility of the author, and does not reflect the opinion of Brasil 247.