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"My candidacy is a mission," Sovereign right-wing Brazilian MP Jair Bolsonaro, who was officially nominated by his party for the October presidential election, said on Sunday that polls are predicting him a place in the second round. 19659002] "I am here because I believe in you, and if you are here it is because you believe in Brazil," he said in front of more than 3,000 enthusiastic activists, acclaimed fervently at the convention of Liberal Socialist Party (PSL) in Rio de Janeiro, his electoral stronghold
"I know how badly I put the establishment at ease (…) I'm like the ugly duckling, but I I am sure that soon we will be beautiful, "he said.
With less than three months of an election that looks very uncertain and polarized, this MP who willingly displays his nostalgia for the military dictatorship (1964 -1985) aroused a strong rejection from part of the population, echoed by its racist, misogynist and homophobic rapes.
But he is seen by many Brazilians as the savior of the homeland undermined by repeated corruption scandals.
"Our country is in such a state that only Bolsonaro can do the difference. Only God is our savior, but Bolsonaro is our hope, "35-year-old bus driver Gilmar Jbadet, present at the PSL convention, told AFP on Tuesday.
The candidate from the extreme right has one major badet: he is one of the few leading politicians never to have been spattered by corruption scandals.
"What do we need? Of a man or a woman who is honest, who has God in the heart and is a patriot ", exclaimed the candidate in front of the delirious crowd, who welcomed him with the cries of" mito, mito " (myth in Portuguese, his nickname)
– Favorable to privatization –
For the convention, he managed to gather a rather heterogeneous public: fans of military culture in lattice, evangelical conservatives, inhabitants of the chic districts, but also favelas revolted against insecurity.
"If anyone wants to rob me, it is better that he think twice, because I will be armed," said Cristiano Pereira, 32, a resident of the violent north suburb of Rio, who appreciated the "firmness" of his champion and his promises to facilitate access to the port of arms.
Despite all the controversies, Jair Bolsonaro is leading the voting intentions for the first turn, unless the ex-president left Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in prison n since April for corruption, is allowed to participate in the poll, an option deemed unlikely by most badysts.
The pollsters do not see the right-wing candidate triumph in the second round.
He confessed in an interview published Sunday in the newspaper O Globo "do not understand anything to the economy", but have full Confidence in his guru in the field, Paulo Guedes, trained at the liberal school of the University of Chicago.
"Acknowledge that I do not understand certain things is a sign of humility," he said at a press conference after the speeches
The candidate said he was in favor of privatizations, "including certain sectors of Petrobras", the oil company in the middle of a vast scandal of
– Ticket not composted –
However, his controversial positions and provocative style play tricks on him. He feels all the trouble in the world to find a vice-president to compose his ticket, wiping several successive refusals.
He should probably fall back on Janaina Paschoal, a lawyer with an explosive personality, without political experience, but famous for the key role she played in 2016 in the dismissal of the left-wing president Dilma Rousseff, Lula's runner-up
Present at convention, she said she was "honored" by the invitation, but said that she continued to "dialogue" with the candidate before announcing her final decision.
Lacking an alliance with a major party, Mr Bolsonaro should have only eight seconds of television coverage for his campaign spots, the time allotted being linked to the weight of the coalition in Parliament.
fueling its strategy of rejecting mainstream media, which it accuses of disseminating false information, to bet more on social networks, with its Facebook profile followed by more than 5 million Internet users.
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