Evangelicals are key to Brazil’s upcoming election
But they are not necessarily going to vote for Jair Bolsonaro
POLITICAL HOPEFULS always cast doubt on the abilities of their competitors. But when Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva finally confirmed on May 7th that he would be running in Brazil’s presidential election in October, his campaign speech included attacks which were more moralistic than most. Lula, as he likes to be known, was scathing about Jair Bolsonaro, the incumbent, arguing that a president who does not cry for those rummaging for food in rubbish or for the 660,000 Brazilians dead from covid-19 is not worthy of the title. “He may call himself a Christian, but he has no love for his neighbour,” he said.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “The cross on the ballot”
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