Bolsonaro anticipates going to Fiesp to August 11

The campaign of President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) anticipated his participation in the round of meetings with presidential candidates promoted by Fiesp (federation of industries of São Paulo) from August 12 to 11.

With that, the event will be held on the same day that two manifestos against the attacks he has made on electronic voting machines and on the electoral system will be read. Fiesp participates in one of the initiatives.

The entity has held meetings with presidential candidates to discuss the “priority guidelines” for the federal government over the next four years. Former President Lula (PT), for example, will be at the federation headquarters on the 9th.

Ciro Gomes (PDT), Luiz Felipe D´Ávila (Novo) and Simone Tebet (MDB) – she, this Monday (1st), have already participated in the meeting.

The president’s campaign provided no justification for the date change.

Last week, Bolsonaro claimed that the manifesto for democracy endorsed by the entity is clearly against him. “An electoral political note that was unfortunately born at Fiesp in São Paulo. If I didn’t have the political bias in this note, I would sign it”, he said.

The president also has among the day’s commitments in São Paulo a dinner with businessmen organized by the Esfera Brasil group.

According to the Panel column, from the SheetBolsonaro should be invited at Fiesp to sign the manifesto in defense of democracy headed by the institution, as other presidential candidates have already done.

Meetings with candidates are being held at Fiesp’s headquarters, and politicians were invited to participate in a dialogue with directors, counselors, unions and members of the entities on proposals for Brazil.

With the two meetings, the president creates a kind of counterpoint to the event to publicize the “Letter to Brazilians and Brazilians in Defense of the Democratic State of Law”, which was born from a group of former students of the USP Law School and will be read at Largo de São Francisco. This text already has more than 500 thousand signatures.

The manifesto will be read on August 11, after the release of a second document, organized by business people and associations, entitled “In Defense of Democracy and Justice”.

Pro-democracy initiatives gained strength after the president held, on July 18, a meeting with ambassadors stationed in Brasília to expose lies about the polls and the electoral process, repeating arguments already discarded after his exposure in a live last year.

According to a Datafolha survey carried out between Wednesday (27) and Thursday (28), 47% of the population say they trust the electronic voting machine a lot, while 32% say they trust it a little – which generates a credibility index of 79% for the system, according to the institute. Another 20% responded that they do not trust the polls.