President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva called on the elderly to vote for their children and underscored the importance of the youth in mobilizing for the election.

  • morto@piefed.social
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    1 day ago

    Come on, look at our recent history. Look at what happened to Dilma. Look at our congress and senate composition. There’s not much room to make many improvements. We’re stuck fighting against right-wing domination and total control by the US, like in Argentina. The far right has already won this election. They have the majority in our government. We are just trying to elect Lula to limit their power. this also happened in the past elections. No one recognizes the work from the ones who avoid bad things from happening, and people are being very unfair to lula. take for example the recent policy of using petrobras to hold the fuel prices internally. Many places around us are facing crisis and prices are skyrocketing due to the war, but brazil is almost untouched. And even though the congress is against him, he pushed laws to reduce work hours, prohibit online gambling, reduce taxes on the poorer, remove taxes from medications, and others. Many people who are bashing him today only had access to education through his politics of expanding federal institutes, many people have access to healthcare through the expansion of “UPAs”, many people don’t have to pay rent because they had access to “minha casa, minha vida”, etc and lots of etc. People take full advangate of his policies, but will bash him nonetheless.

    Lula is no Biden, and this comparison is really unfair, if not uninformed

    • Taldan@lemmy.world
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      Yes, the US is interfering in the election. Probably worse than Russia interfered in the US election

      End of the day though, Lula isn’t very well liked. He has a lot of baggage. He’s running against a right-winger with no real platform beyond reactionary politics

      Biden pushed a lot of those same policies, ny the way. It was just ineffective becajse he handed the election to Trump, who immediately reversed them all