Face to face, in a more fluid format, opponents Lula (PT and Bolsonaro (PL) tried to gain the public's attention with different performances in the debate: Lula moved more on the debate stage and sent some messages in his clothes. Bolsonaro left to the attack, linking Lula to far-left rulers in Latin America and trying to destabilize the PT member by touching him.
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In the debate, Lula wore the same tie used in the interrogation of Sérgio Moro - former judge who condemned Lula, former minister of Jair Bolsonaro and former candidate for president of the Republic -, in a provocative message to Moro, who advised the current president before and during the debate.
Another “subliminal” message sent by Lula was the “Faça Bonito” campaign pin, against the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents.
With the brooch, Lula made an indirect reference to Jair Bolsonaro's controversial phrase on a podcast saying that he “created a climate” between him and two Venezuelan teenagers. Responding to a question about the hypothesis of Brazil becoming communist in an eventual victory for Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Bolsonaro insinuated that Venezuelan girls have to prostitute themselves in Brazil to “make a living”.
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“I was in Brasília, in the community of São Sebastião, on a motorcycle. I stopped the motorcycle on a corner, took off my helmet and looked at some pretty little girls, 14, 15 years old, dressed up on a Saturday in a community, and I saw that they looked similar. It created a mood, I came back. 'Can I come into your house?', I did. There were about 15, 20 girls on Saturday morning getting ready. All Venezuelan. So I ask you, pretty girl getting ready on Saturday morning for what? To make a living,” the president told the Podcast.
At a press conference before the debate, Bolsonaro got angry with journalists when he was questionI love about the speech:
In an attempt to destabilize Lula, Bolsonaro asked his opponent to stay by his side at all times, calling for a clash. In one of the tense moments, the president touches the PT member's shoulder. The action became a meme:
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Other memes about the highlights of the dispute were popular on the internet:
“You will see that I will get close and there will be no aggression towards you”, said Lula to Vera Magalhães, a journalist constantly attacked by Jair Bolsonaro, including in the last Band debate.
Lula's phrase provoked engagement from women on social media:
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In the third block of the debate, Lula was lost in time when Bolsonaro began to associate him with left-wing rulers in Latin America, whom he called “communist dictators”. Bolsonaro used 5 minutes to speak freely and attack Lula, who lost the right to a rejoinder.
Amazon and Bolsonaro's lies
One of the highlights and most engaged on social media were Bolsonaro's phrases about deforestation in the Amazon: “Give me a google and see who deforested the Amazon the most”, provoked the president, triggering a series of false data on deforestation. Experts quickly took to Twitter to deny Bolsonaro:
Favela, bandits, militiamen and northeasterners
Another highlight of the debate was Lula's responses to Bolsonaro's attacks: first, when he recalled the secrecy placed on the current government, even regarding the president's vaccination card. Second, when Bolsonaro says that during Lula's visit to the German's complex “he only had drug dealers” accompanying the PT member.
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Gaffes and fake news
When responding about corruption in the current government, especially in relation to the purchase of vaccines – an act denounced in the Covid-19 CPI, in the National Congress -, Bolsonaro said that “there was no corruption because there was no vaccine”. Then, Bolsonaro changed “water” to “gun”.
When Bolsonaro says that he had no participation in the secret budget – a way of buying Congress, called “bolsolão” – the former president of the Chamber of Deputies Rodrigo Maia made a video to explain that Bolsonaro is “the father of the secret budget”.
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