Residents of the city of Monte Sião, in the interior of Minas Gerais, are mobilizing in WhatsApp groups to boycott establishments and services of people who allegedly voted in favor of President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT).
A list with the names of companies and their supposedly PT owners is being shared with groups in the region. In addition to informal groups, a group called “Boycott Petista M Sião” was created. Next to the list, audios are forwarded.
“Here’s the list of the bastards who voted against us, against our city. They don’t think about us who sell knitting. Let’s see if we manage not to think about them too when they go to buy the things they need. somewhere else. To show these ‘mother’s daughter’ people. He didn’t think about our city, let’s not think about them either”, says one of them, to which the Sheet had access.
The city in the south of Minas Gerais is known as the National Capital of Knitting and has about 21,000 inhabitants, of which 76.47% voted for Jair Bolsonaro (PL) for reelection. According to a publication in the Estado de Minas newspaper, the city was the one that most voted for the current president in Minas Gerais.
Upon learning of the message, the owners of the aforementioned establishments and service providers got together to seek legal advice. The objective is to get the list to stop circulating and those responsible for it to be held legally accountable.
Some establishments issued clarification notes saying they do not endorse an act of repudiation of any candidate or political party, defending the freedom of all and informing that judicial measures will be taken from the episode. The group was instructed to initiate individual actions.
Hairdresser Patrícia Lima Castro, 38, posted a video on her Instagram denouncing the movement. The partner of the beauty salon Conceito NVC has been working in the city for sixteen years and says she has never spoken out politically to avoid attacks.
“Now my name is on a boycott list. I want to leave a message here for the brave ones, because we exclusively serve women: for you brave ones, who I attend here and are spreading this list and boycotting us, leave your names in the comments”, he says. in the publication. Supporting comments prevail. His sister and family also appear on the list released by Bolsonaristas.
Verônica Canela Estevam dos Santos, 23, is the daughter of the owner of the Cor e Arte store, which appears on the list, and says that on Monday no one was served. A person showed up to close the account. For now it is impossible to say if this is related to the list, because bolsonaristas in the city are also part of the movement that closes roads in the country. “They took earth off the slopes with tractors and put it in front of the city gate. They didn’t let anyone through,” she says.
The dentistry student says that her father, Maurício Estevam dos Santos, has been a member of the PT for 34 years and is currently president of the party’s directory in Monte Sião – but her mother, who owns the establishment, is not. Veronica also says that the list is being updated frequently, with names of people she knows have not voted for the PT candidate. For her, boycotts are focused on attacking people. “There is a widespread witch hunt,” she says.
Makeup artist Eduardo Faria, 27, says he spoke out on social media before the second shift and still doesn’t know what the impact of the list will be on his work schedule. He mostly attends on weekends, but is afraid to go out on the street. “I’m gay, so I’m scared now to go out and listen to unnecessary jokes or get verbally abused,” he says.
The owner of Santo Malte, a bar specializing in special beers and artisanal hamburgers, Vitor Guinesi, 37, says he has never taken a political stand and was taken by surprise by appearing on the lists that are circulating in WhatsApp groups in the region. “This worries me, even more in this moment of hatred and segregation that we live”.
“Number 16, Gabriel Azevedo Karate” also appears on the list, in reference to Gabriel Azevedo, 22. He is a civil servant, a motorcycle courier on weekends and an athlete. It currently has partnerships to continue in high performance.
Gabriel says that he campaigned for Lula on the networks, but most of the time he did not take a stand or respond to the attacks. He says that one of the brands he has partnered with even responded to one of his publications with attacks.
“Living this is unbelievable, I never imagined being afraid to walk the streets of my city. Today I’m afraid of being attacked”. He also cites the Bolsonarista force in Monte Sião and the barriers that prevent the passage of residents and visitors. “They’re acting like owners, opening and closing whenever they want, leaving a lot of people without access to the hospital, jobs, everything. It’s hard to bear,” he says.
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Other residents of the city also shared information about the barricades and xenophobic publications published by businessmen in the area, but asked not to be identified. “Don’t show up from the Northeast asking for a job here,” wrote a businesswoman on social media. This Monday, the day after the second round, the Monte-Sionense city hall page on Facebook published an image informing the cancellation of a northeast dinner that would take place in the city.
On the afternoon of this Tuesday (1st), the hashtag #DemitaUmPetista appears on Twitter.
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