Bolsonaro mixes campaign politics, military displays on Brazil bicentennial
Thursday, 08 Sep 2022 7:42 AM MYT
BRASILIA, Sept 8 ― President Jair Bolsonaro mingled military parades on Brazil's Independence Day with political rallies in Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia yesterday, firing up hundreds of thousands of supporters less than a month before a heated election.
Opponents and legal experts criticized the far-right leader for co-opting public celebrations of Brazil's bicentennial to serve his re-election campaign, in which polls show him trailing leftist rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ahead of a October 2 vote.
“Our battle is a fight between good and evil,” Bolsonaro told his supporters from a sound truck in Brasilia, amid cries of “Lula, thief” and banners calling for military intervention in Brazil's Supreme Court.
Bolsonaro toned down his attacks against the judiciary after spending more than a year blasting the courts that run Brazilian elections, which he calls vulnerable to fraud, without citing evidence.
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