The third and final in-person debate between candidates for Palácio do Planalto before the first round was marked by strong clashes, several requests for the right to reply and many promethese elections.
ADVERTISING
The scenes went viral on the internet in the form of memes or trolling, in videos and photos. O Curto News compiled some of the moments that provoked the greatest engagement on social networks:
The Kelmon and Bolsonaro duo
The controversial candidate Padre Kelmon (PTB) and President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) acted as partners for questions and criticisms of the first place in the voting intentions polls, Lula from PT. The popular “double” was questioned by voters on social media.
With an accusatory tone against the PT candidate, Ciro Gomes (PDT) was placed alongside Kelmon and Bolsonaro. Internet users created a meme that went viral and quickly reached WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter groups:
ADVERTISING
With one eye on the debate and the other on social media, network users produced a veritable arsenal of memes reacting to the candidates' statements.
The clash between Soraya Thronicke (União Brasil) and Padre Kelmon (PTB) became one of the most talked about memes on the networks. The candidate called Kelmon a “festa junina priest”, and the episode gained a few versions:
Throughout more than 5 hours of debate - which extended into the early hours due to the series of rights to respond to offenses requested by candidates -, it was marked by the tension of the day before the vote, interruptions and seals... a full plate for controversies and satires.
ADVERTISING
Climate denialism
The environment theme appeared at some points in the debate. One of them when the candidate Simone Tebet (MDB) questionor Jair Bolsonaro (PL) on environmental policy of the federal government. She cited recent records in the rates of deforestation and loss of vegetation in Brazilian biomes, already confirmed by science. The president denied the problem, and said that the Amazon and Pantanal were not targets of fires this year. 😲
Simone Tebet: Your government was the one that let our biomes, forests, my Pantanal and the Amazon burn and be devastated. The biggest deforestation in the last 15 years. Instead of protecting forests and taking care of people's lives, his government took care of and protected miners, invaders of public areas and loggers. You, in this aspect, were the worst president in the history of Brazil.
Jair Bolsonaro: What you are saying here is not true. Periodically, the region catches fire. But in Brazil, we have two thirds of our forests preserved, in the same way as when Pedro Álvares Cabral arrived here. We are one of the countries, which is now in the tenth economy in the world, that emits the least gases and CO². This is our Brazil. You must have some idea of how big our Amazon Forest is. It is equivalent to Western Europe. How to take care of all this? This year, we had no news of fires in either the Pantanal or the Amazon Forest.
(*): Content in other languages translated by Google Tradutor
(🇬🇧): content in English(🚥): may require registration and/or signature
