Campos's wake included a plea for votes for Marina.
On the same day that candidate Eduardo Campos was being mourned and buried in Recife, activists were asking for votes for his likely replacement in the campaign: Marina Silva; "He said: 'we will not give up on Brazil'. So who is it? If God took him, let's respect that," said a PSB activist; watch the video.
247 - In addition to slogans and T-shirts with catchy phrases, the wake for candidate Eduardo Campos, who died last Wednesday the 13th in a tragic plane crash, included calls for votes for his likely successor: Marina Silva.
At the event, which drew 140 people throughout the ceremony, starting in the early hours of Saturday, PSB activists handed out leaflets promoting the PSB, Eduardo and Marina, and now urging votes for the former senator.
When asked who had sent the "message," one activist replied, "Eduardo, who is now Marina." She was referring to the phrase "we will not give up on Brazil," said by the former presidential candidate in his interview with Jornal Nacional the day before the accident, which became the party's campaign slogan.
"He said, 'We're not going to give up on Brazil.' So who is he? If God took him, let's respect that," said the activist. Watch the video below, posted by Rodrigo Pilha: