Given the narrowing gap between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) and Senator Flavio Bolsonaro (PL) in the electoral polls, the PT candidate for governor of São Paulo, Fernando Haddad, has begun nationalizing the discourse of national sovereignty, a political strategy of his political patron for this year's elections. Haddad has been using free electoral advertising, interviews, and speeches to reinforce this narrative.
The former Finance Minister has been projecting the release of Daniel Vorcaro, owner of the defunct Banco Master, should Lula leave office next year. The information about this projection emerges amid the political tension between the two opposing camps in the Brazilian elections.
On Monday (7), Independence Day, Haddad took the opportunity to present on TV a program containing criticism of the tariff hikes applied by the government of Donald Trump, President of the United States, on Brazilian exports. In his speech, the candidate declared: "More than two centuries later, they want to make us kneel again: before, before Portugal, and today, before the United States. But with the same betrayals, people from within selling themselves to those from outside."
On the opposite side, Flavio Bolsonaro appeared at CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference), an international event that brings together conservative leaders, highlighting the polarization between the two camps in the Brazilian political dispute.
