A Bolsonaro gesture triggers controversy in the Brazilian countryside

In one act, the candidate teaches a miner to simulate a handgun

BRASILIA (ANSA) .- The electoral campaign in Brazil begins and its first scandal bursts. Candidate Jair Bolsonaro, who is the first candidate for the Workers' Party (PT) election for the October elections, is not the candidate of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

A video showing Bolsonaro with a girl in arms that taught him how to put his fingers in the form of a gun caused a sensation in Brazil. The social-liberal party icon (PSL), which has already become its trademark, consists of placing the index and thumb imitating a weapon, as a visual accompaniment to one of its slogans (" There is no better offender than the dead offender "

Last Thursday, at an event in the state of Goiás, Bolsonaro, who tends to joke in public, picked up a girl aged three to four years and grabbed her fingers to reproduce the imaginary weapon 19659005] The image of Bolsonaro with the girl in arms has generated the indignation of the candidate Marina Silva, from the Red Sustentabilidad Party. "As a mother and teacher, I am outraged to see the candidate teach a girl to do the revolver gesture." The hands of a child should be trained to use a pencil and notebook for never use weapons. "

" As a father, I hate and regret that such a person be distilled by distress. Bolsonaro is not an electoral opponent, he is an opponent in Brazil, "said presidential candidate Guilherme Boulus of the Socialist and Liberal Party (PSOL).

Deputy Commissioner Waldir, of the PSL, who accompanied Bolsonaro during the act of proselytism in Goiás, refuted critics of the Network and the PSOL for gesture with the girl, said: "The fingers are a registered trademark, they are a symbol of being Christian and patriotic, not an incitement to violence. "

Bolsonaro is a retired captain and the most voted deputy of Rio de Janeiro.His distinctive flag is his claim of state violence, the criticism of traditional politicians and the defense of dictatorship military who ruled between 1964 and 1985.

All the forecasts place him as a serious candidate in the elections of the next 7 years.Ober.He is second in all the polls, with between 15 and 17% of the intention to vote, behind Lula, who adds between 30 and 33%, although it seems unlikely that he will regain the freedom to campaign.