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Since the elections he won in 2018, Bolsonaro has had difficulty with the female vote. Now, 51% of women will vote for Lula da Silva, compared to 42% who prefer Bolsonaro. “He defends many women’s causes,” declares one of his followers. “I’m going to vote for him, that all women are going to vote for Lula is not true,” says another.
Reports the correspondent in Rio de Janeiro
On the recent anniversary of Brazil’s independence, the outgoing president had his supporters shout that he was infallible in bed, in front of his wife, Michelle Bolsonaro. In the first electoral debate he accused a journalist of “sleeping thinking about him”. On two occasions, in 2003 and 2014, he declared that he would not rape an opposition deputy, because she was ugly and did not deserve it.
“It is proven, he is against women,” says one of his detractors. “He considers that women are inferior to men,” denounces another.
Recently, some statements suggesting that some Venezuelan teenage refugees in Brasilia were engaged in prostitution raised some eyebrows. “I took off my helmet and I saw some little girls, three or four pretty, 14 or 15 years old, well dressed on Saturday in a favela. I came back and asked: can I come into your house? Among. There were 15 or 20 girls on Saturday morning getting ready for what?” Bolsonaro declared.
“I think that since he was in the military, he is in favor of the man imposing the rules, but the woman has a voice and a vote. It doesn’t have to be just what man wants”, claims this inhabitant of Rio de Janeiro.
Former senator Simone Tebet was the third presidential candidate with the most votes. After being left out of the electoral race, she has actively joined Lula da Silva’s campaign. “It is women who are going to decide the election, and we are going to decide it against a misogynistic president who promotes violence against women because he is a coward,” Tebet declared.
Indeed, women represent 52.65% of the Brazilian electorate, but not all of them will vote for Lula. “I have many doubts, I know women who are going to vote for Bolsonaro mainly because of the Christian ideology that she claims to defend,” says this other voter.
Despite their importance in the vote, women in Brazil are underrepresented in political spaces of power. Whoever wins, it does not seem that this situation will change in the short term.
