A man from Northeast Brazil responds to Bolsonaro's insult: "Respect our people, we will give our answer at the ballot box" (video)
"We don't need food from the South," said Paulinho do Fumo.
247 - A man from the Northeast known as Paulinho do Fumo criticized the offensive remarks made by Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and lawyer Flávia Moraes against the people of the Northeast.
"I want to send a little message. People from the Northeast are tough guys. We don't need food from the South. We work here. Wash your mouth out before you speak about people from the Northeast. We'll give our answer at the ballot box," said Paulinho in the municipality of Lagarto, in Sergipe.
Bolsonaro linked the voters of presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) to illiteracyThe Workers' Party candidate garnered 48% of the valid votes (57,2 million) in the first round of the election, compared to 43% (51 million) for his opponent. In the Northeast region, Lula received 12,9 million more votes than Bolsonaro (21,6 million to 8,7 million).
Lawyer Flávia Moraes, vice-president of the OAB Mulher (Women's Section of the Brazilian Bar Association) in the city of Uberlândia (MG), stated that "We (from the South) are no longer going to feed those who live on crumbs.".
The president of the Brazilian Bar Association - Minas Gerais section (OAB-MG), Sérgio Leonardo, He argued that the lawyer should lose her position..
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Lula attacks Bolsonaro for his remarks about illiteracy and says that people from the Northeast cannot vote for the president.
(Reuters)- Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) attacked President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) on Thursday for a statement about illiteracy in the Northeast and the PT candidate's victory in the region in the first round of the presidential election, and said that Northeasterners cannot vote for the candidate seeking re-election.
"Anyone with even a drop of Northeastern blood cannot vote for this monstrous denialist who governs this country," Lula said at a rally in São Bernardo do Campo, in the metropolitan region of São Paulo and the Workers' Party leader's political birthplace.
"People who are illiterate are not illiterate through their own fault," Lula added, standing alongside his running mate, Geraldo Alckmin (PSB), and the candidate for governor of the state, Fernando Haddad (PT), among others.
In a live broadcast on Wednesday night, Bolsonaro read a news article titled "Lula won in 9 of the 10 states with the highest illiteracy rates," and continued, saying: "Do you know which states those are? They're in our Northeast."
While Lula held a 5-point lead over Bolsonaro in the national average in the first round (48,43% to 43,20% of valid votes), in the Northeast Lula's lead was quite comfortable. An Ipec poll released Wednesday night shows that this lead continues, with 69% of voting intentions for the Workers' Party candidate compared to 26% for the current president.
Already fearing the use of his statement in the campaign, Bolsonaro posted a tweet on Thursday warning voters against "narratives".
"Don't fall for narratives that try to pit us against our brothers and sisters in the Northeast. The left divides to conquer. They've already tried it with Black people, women, Indigenous people, etc. Now they're trying it with Northeasterners, to overshadow achievements like the São Francisco River diversion project, which we completed," the president tweeted.
During the rally in São Bernardo do Campo, Lula recalled that the cities of São Bernardo do Campo and Santo André had never had a federal university before he came to power.
"It was a nearly illiterate metalworker who brought the university here," he said. "We, the people of the Northeast, helped build every meter of asphalt in this country, every bridge, every house."
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