Brazil elections 2022: Bolsonaro opens campaign in the city where he was stabbed in 2018

In Brazil, the deadline for the presentation of candidacies before the Electoral Justice concludes today, giving way to the beginning of the campaigns, which will open tomorrow when President Jair Bolsonaro leads an act in Juiz de Fora, the city where he was stabbed four years ago.

Bolsonaro of the Liberal Party (PL, right) and his main rival, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers’ Party (PT, left), have already presented their candidacies before the Superior Electoral Court, where today is the deadline for the formalization of the candidates.

The October elections will designate the president, governors, senators, and federal and state deputies.

Ten other politicians have already requested authorization to be candidates for the presidency of Brazil, in addition to Lula and Bolsonaro, who are ranked first and second in the polls, respectively.

Bolsonaro must travel this Tuesday to Juiz de Fora, in the state of Minas Gerais, the second polling station in Brazil, where he was stabbed on September 6, 2018, with less than a month left for the elections in which he was elected president.

Last month the president traveled for the first time since 2018 to Juiz de Fora, where he was attacked by Adelio Bispo, whom the president accuses of being part of a “conspiracy” orchestrated by the “left”.

For his part, Lula is to start his campaign in a plant of the Volkswagen automobile company in the state of São Paulo, which has the largest electoral college.

In that state, presidential candidate Ciro Gomes of the Democratic Labor Party (PDT, center-left), who appears third in the polls, will begin his campaign this Tuesday.

With information from ANSA