Dilma: Estadão insulted the intelligence of its readers by comparing Lula to Bolsonaro.
Former President Dilma Rousseff said that the Estadão editorial lacks intellectual honesty in making a certain comparison. "Not even in its worst moments has this or any other newspaper been so unfaithful to the truth," she said.
247 - Former President Dilma Rousseff criticized the editorial from the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo This Tuesday, the 26th, marks another attempt to equate former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with Jair Bolsonaro.
On Twitter, Dilma said that the opinion piece in Estadão lacks intellectual honesty in making a certain comparison. "Not even in its worst moments has this or any other newspaper been so unfaithful to the truth. Lula and Bolsonaro are opposites, irreconcilable and incompatible," Dilma said on Twitter.
"Lula is a democrat who, whether in power or out of it, has never disrespected freedom and human rights. Bolsonaro is an enemy of democracy and the rights of the people. Lula has always sought peace. Bolsonaro seeks violence and wants to arm militias for a war against the institutions," adds the former president.
Dilma says that democrats and fascists are not alike, they are antagonistic. "By equating them, Estadão insults the intelligence of its readers and commits an act of pusillanimity. At such a grave time for the country, it disrespects even moments in its history when it knew how to distinguish barbarism from civilization," says the Workers' Party member.
Titled “Born for each other,” the Estadão editorial states that “both the President of the Republic and the PT leader are associated in the most absolute lack of scruples, to levels that would make even Machiavelli blush.”
According to the text, the two "see the world and their role in it from the very same perspective. Everything they do relates exclusively to their power projects, in which the State and the people cease to be the ultimate goal of political activity and become mere vehicles for their totalitarian aspirations."
On the eve of the 2018 presidential elections, the newspaper published an editorial stating that it was "a very difficult choice" between Fernando Haddad and Bolsonaro.