New mass demonstration against Jair Bolsonaro across Brazil | Massive rejection of management and demand for dismissal

From Brasilia

As in the resistance against the dictatorship. About ten parties with unions and social movements participated this Saturday in the mobilisations which had the dominant slogan “Outside Bolsonaro”, added to others by the way the socio-economic crisis and corruption.

Extended support

A fact: this day of struggle also got the support (although they did not participate in the organization) of conservative groups who had kept their distance concentrations held since the end of May by the Democratic People’s Camp.

For some, what happened this Saturday in the center of São Paulo and in about three hundred cities in which there was about 600 thousand people, according to Central of Popular Movements (CMP), is comparable to the unitary marches, covering a broad political spectrum, which in 1984 demanded that the dictatorship hold “direct elections now”.

37 years ago the country was under the general’s whip João Bapitista Figueiredo (He boasted of being a good rider), a dictator who liked the smell of horses more than the smell of the people (he said so), through whom Bolsonaro usually expresses his “saudades”.

“Great action on Avenida Paulista with more political forces, unions and civil society, the expansion of the unity of these forces is built with the common objective of suppressing Bolsonaro ”, he summed up Gleisi Hoffmann, the president of the Workers Party (TP).

According to Augusto Bomfim, of the CMP, “we wanted these marches to have place for all flags and we also get a greater participation of the population of the periphery “,

In turn Djalma Good, activist of the PT, imprisoned in 1980 with his partner and metallurgical leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, declared: “We have come to fill Avenida Paulista with people. eliminate those fascists who oppress the people. In 1984 we were fighting to withdraw the military in 2021 we have another situation, now we come to defend democracy. Bolsonaro and the military have coup DNA, they will always want to give a coup, ”Bom said in a telephone conversation with Page 12.

September 7, independence day, Bolsonaro gathered around 125,000 people in São Paulo, far from the million he had promised by weeks of agitation and coup propaganda. The attempt failed. For the moment.

This Saturday, San Pablo was the scene of the most intense concentration in the country with a caravan of large trucks equipped with loudspeakers, from which the leaders gave their speeches in front of tens of thousands of people.

The audience was mixed: activists from leftist and democratic parties, activists from the homeless movement, groups linked to the LGBT cause and unionized workers. These tribes, with their mostly red flags, accompanied the speeches, while other citizens without partisan affiliations walked the avenue without stopping in front of the speakers and, at times, making humorous comments on the dolls dedicated to the parody of the President.

One of the main speakers was Fernando haddad, presidential candidate in 2018 for the PT, when Lula was unable to stand due to a multiple plot: on the one hand, the judiciary through the forced sentences in the Lava Jato case to which s’ Allied pressure from the military to prevent Petista’s freedom as he stood in the column after Bolsonaro’s candidacy.

“We are here at Paulista giving an answer on September 7th when this avenue was occupied by the Bolsonarists, now we we decided to double the bet. Every time Bolsonaro threatens us, we will double democracy, ”Haddad promised.

In his speech, the leader of the Homeless Workers Movement (MTST), Guillaume Boulos, focus on the social. “The real Brazil is the one who stands in line (in butchers and cold rooms) waiting for a bone. The real Brazil is suffering from genocide, unemployment and hunger,” said Boulos, of the Socialism Party and the freedom (Psol).

Ten-meter-tall inflatable doll caricatured far-right president with Dracula-like quotes a few meters from where Haddad and Boulos spoke. In one hand, the parody of Bolsonaro carried a box of drugs of the brand “Chloropropina”, short for hydroxychloroquine, the drug he recommended against the coronavirus knowing that it does not fight this disease and “tip”, a word which in popular parlance means “corruption”.

From the drones that flew over the avenue, dozens of large balloons of the Central Unica de los Trabajadores (TO CUT). At the bottom, on the asphalt, young people were jumping as in the tribune of a football field, chanting tics against the military police of São Paulo in the ranks of which militate Bolsonarian elements as happens in the security forces of several states.

The São Paulo rally began in the afternoon at the end of the Rio de Janeiro rally, where thousands of people passed through the center behind black parades with the slogan “Bolsonaro Genocida”. The Unique Federation of Oil Tankers It was carrying replica giant orange gas bottles (like tanker suits) priced at R $ 15 and the phrase “Is it expensive?” Blame Bolsonaro ”.

“My-check”

In Brasilia, there have been expressions of repudiation against Bolsonaro for his policies towards Covid-19, with posters calling him ‘genocide’ and demanding that there be more ‘vaccines in the arm and food in the plate “. The Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into the Pandemic (ICC) confirmed that the president had lobbied to delay the purchase of vaccines The Chinese Coronavac and the American Pfizer, despite having received offers for tens of millions of doses.

On the Esplanade des Ministères in downtown Brasilia, criticism of the retired captain was mixed with ironies directed at his wife, Michele, embroiled in a scandal of influence peddling at the state bank Savings bank discovered last Friday. Despite her hyperactive marketing as an evangelical and submissive woman, Ms Bolsonaro is apparently pulling the strings within the Mafia organization that operates under the protection of the family clan, in which her father and four sons are also believed to be involved.

Under a cloudy sky, students from the University of Brasilia walked along the avenue with cards dedicated to the first lady nicknamed “My-check”. This nickname that joins the words Michelle and check comes from another murky case that circulated years ago: according to official documents from an agency under the Ministry of the Economy, the president’s wife received checks from a paramilitary allegedly hired to launder money illegally bagged by the family.

Bolsonaro came to government after a campaign in which he vowed to adhere to an uncompromising morality that his justice minister, the former judge, would ensure. Sergio Moro, the responsible Lava Jato. But over the months, the evidence of corruption became undeniable as Moro took steps to cover his boss. In today’s marches in Brasilia, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, there was posters against government corruption and dollars with the face of the ruler illustrating banknotes.

During this year

The thousands of Brazilians who have occupied the avenues of Brazilian capitals testify to the extent of the discontent with a government barely a thousand days in power.

What was seen this Saturday is repeated in the polls. All indicate that Bolsonaro would be beaten by ten points or more by Lula in the first round elections next year, and in one ballot the difference would exceed twenty points.

These polls also indicate that Lula would win a ballot against any of the possible candidates of the non-fascist right, including João Doria, the governor of São Paulo and candidate of the Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB), of the former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso placeholder image.

It is no coincidence that the PT and other organizers have chosen to demonstrate against the government this Saturday: exactly one year later Sunday October 2, 2022 when the presidential elections will be held.

Fernando Haddad said this Saturday in the center of São Paulo: “the elections are in a year, ask the people of the periphery, ask the people of the countryside, the unemployed, ask the high school students (they vote from 16 years) if it is possible to wait a year for end this nightmare“.