Repudiation note

The PT Here and There Movement, an alliance that brings together a dozen internal political forces of the Workers' Party in Ceará, vehemently repudiates all the attacks systematically, irresponsibly, mendaciously, and infamarily launched by presidential candidate Ciro Ferreira Gomes against President Lula, the greatest political leader in the history of Brazil, and against the Workers' Party.

Showing evident emotional instability, candidate Ferreira Gomes expresses a furious sectarianism, through manipulation of the facts, attacking the truth of the facts, to unscrupulously serve his electoral interests, in a clear disrespect for Brazilian citizenship, as happened recently, when on Friday (21) he attacked not only President Lula, but the Press in general in the person of journalist Luís Costa Pinto, editor-in-chief of the journalistic company Brasil 247, stating that that media outlet “is a Lula pamphlet maintained with dirty money”.

Ciro is trying to establish himself as a poorly finished version of a modern Bolsonaro in order to attract the sympathy of the market. In his numb zeal to launch his candidacy, he attacks the democratic field that has in President Lula the only leader capable of restoring hope to the Brazilian people, who have suffered so much from the dismantling of national public assets and the attacks on workers' rights that neoliberalism cowardly perpetrated starting with the coup against President Dilma Rousseff, deepened by the hands of Bolsonaro's necropolitics since 2019.

Thus, the PT Here and There Movement reiterates its explicit and unequivocal commitment to electing Lula President in 2022, bringing together our party forces, with its militants and political representatives, to build a strong and loyal platform, without ambiguities or hesitations, in this effective and unwavering objective towards our victory.

Fortaleza, January 29, 2022