This Friday, the electoral justice partially restricted the advertising campaign with which the Government of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro intends to highlight the celebrations of the bicentennial of Brazil’s independence.
The restriction was released by the president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Alexandre de Moraes. According to Moraes, in the campaign that the Government has prepared to promote independence celebrations there is material of a political nature that violates electoral legislation and, therefore, he vetoed parts of the advertising message “that exceeds the population’s information on the bicentennial of independence , with possible electoral connotation”.
Bolsonaro, who aspires to be re-elected in the presidential elections on October 2, has been promoting actions for the bicentennial of independence, which is celebrated on September 7, for several weeks, with messages of patriotism and exaltation of the green and yellow flag. of Brazil, which his supporters have adopted as a symbol of his campaign.
The ‘Bolsonaristas’ use the Brazilian flag in contrast to the red flags attributed to the followers of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the favorite to win the elections with 47% of the voting intentions, while Bolsonaro obtained the support of close 32% of voters in previous polls.
The head of state intends to participate in national and military parades on September 7, both in Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro, where he called for acts in favor of his re-election campaign.
His government negotiated and managed to obtain from Portugal the temporary transfer of the heart of D. Pedro IV (D. Pedro I in Brazil), who declared the independence of Brazil and was proclaimed the country’s first emperor.
The Brazilian president has said that he will parade on September 7 dressed in green and yellow, “which are the colors of our flag”, because the 200th anniversary of independence is a date that deserves to be celebrated.
The presidential election in Brazil has the first round scheduled for October 2 and the second round, if necessary, on the 30th of the same month.
In total, 12 candidates are running for president: Jair Bolsonaro, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Ciro Gomes, Simone Tebet, Luís Felipe D’Ávila, Soraya Tronicke, Roberto Jefferson, Pablo Marçal, Eymael, Leonardo Pericles, Sofia Manzano and Vera Lucy .
Source: TSF
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