Brazil: Opposing rallies for Brazil's elections to be held in October, incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva traded jabs that highlight the country's dire divisions.
The two front-runners, who have actually been running for office for months, made it official on the first day of voting, which also displayed their completely different personal styles.

Bolsonaro, 67, began his campaign with a rally in the small southeast town of Juiz de Fora, where he was stabbed and nearly killed during the 2018 campaign, making his "messiah," Or his reputation as the Messiah was strengthened. enthusiastic supporter.
This is where I was born again. In the street where he was stabbed by a man, later found mentally unfit for trial, an emotional Bolsonaro told ardent supporters, "This is where the producer saved my life so that I could serve as president." I can give my best for my country."

Addressing Brazil's "serious problems", Bolsonaro emphasized family values ​​and Christianity.
However, the former army captain insisted that he was the most qualified person to lead the country and warned that his opponent's victory would be "a step behind" and "communism" and "if he wanted to win again". gender ideology".

As he stumbled through a series of crises from the coronavirus pandemic, which he endured, even with Brazil's death toll rising, to rising inflation that is hurting Brazilian families Well, Bolsonaro's reputation as a savior is swooping down to rough up the political establishment. Had to suffer
When the president handed the microphone to the charismatic First Lady Michelle Bolsonaro, an ardent Evangelical Christian, who led the audience in prayer and made her own jabs at Lula, the crowd cheered the most.

He responded by crying "Lula, thief, you're in jail!" By saying, "Our enemy just wants to steal, deceive and destroy!"

Jacqueline Lopes, a 50-year-old teacher covered in a Brazilian flag, announced she was backing Bolsonaro to "continue the cleanup that began four years ago".
Lopes, who traveled three hours from Rio de Janeiro to the rally, announced that he wanted the Left to be eliminated from the nation.
Meanwhile, 76-year-old Lula, who began his political career as a union leader in the 1970s, officially began his campaign with a visit to a Volkswagen plant in So Bernardo do Campo, the state's industrial hub.

He addressed the crowd with a fiery speech, declaring in his distinctive hoarse voice, "I am returning so that we can take back our country.
He denounced the "lies" that Bolsonaro's camp was spreading about him in an effort to win the influential Evangelical vote, which accounts for about 31% of Brazil's 213 million people, and attacked Bolsonaro as a "fake, genocidal president". did.
Bolsonaro, he claimed, "is possessed by the devil."
According to the most recent IPEC Institute poll released on Monday, Lula currently has a 44% to 32% vote advantage over Bolsonaro.

On 30 October, a run-off election will be held if no candidate receives more than 50% of the total valid votes cast at the election on 2 October.
Since the Supreme Court invalidated a controversial corruption sentence that sent Lula to prison and kicked him out of politics in March last year, Brazil has been split between the two candidates.

After presiding over an economic boom that helped lift nearly 30 million people out of poverty, the former president (2003–2010) stepped down as the most-loved leader in Brazilian history.
However, he suffered a shocking fall from grace when he was found guilty in Brazil's massive "car wash" scandal.
Lula, who denies wrongdoing, claims that the case is a concoction intended to destroy his legacy, which he is now clearly trying to restore.
According to 48-year-old welder Mauricio Souza, who is performing the song on his trumpet at a left-wing rally, Lula is the people of Brazil's hope for a better life.

Many Brazilians worry that if Bolsonaro loses, he will try to reverse the outcome like his political hero and former US President Donald Trump.
Bolsonaro often criticizes alleged voting system fraud in Brazil without providing any supporting data, and he often claims that "only God" has the power to remove him from office.
A day after campaigning, the two rivals met in Brasilia on Tuesday to inaugurate the new head of the Supreme Court overseeing the country's elections, who have been vocal opponents of the incumbent president.

Despite being nearly face-to-face, the two candidates didn't at least talk to each other in front of the cameras – Lula in the front row of the audience with Bolsonaro on stage and several other former presidents.

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