Lula likens Bolsonaro's Independence Day ceremony to the Ku Kux Klan
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- 13 Sep 2022
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Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva likened the incumbent Jair Bolsonaro's Independence Day parade (Sept. 7) to a Ku Klux Klan show in which the current head of state just “lacked the hood.”
According to the leftwing leader of the Workers' Party (PT) who is ahead of Bolsonaro in all polls for next month's elections, the national celebrations marking the Bicentennial of Brazil's Independence resembled those of the American supremacist group.
In a campaign meeting in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday, Lula underlined that “there were no blacks, there were no browns, there were no poor, there were no workers” and defended the labor legislation, particularly the one regarding household work passed in 2013 under then-President Dilma Rousseff, also of the PT, who was Lula's successor.
“Do you know who voted in 2013 against the labor rights of household workers? Bozo! The current president of the republic” when he was a federal deputy, recalled Lula, who has a 44% voting intentions against Bolsonaro's 34%, according to a Quaest poll released earlier this week, which also showed that the Liberal Party (PL) had narrowed the gap from July's figures but would nevertheless not prevail in October. Read More...
