BOLSONARO’S WIFE WORE AN ISRAELI FLAG T-SHIRT WHILE VOTING

Mon 31 October 2022:

Former Brazilian First Lady Michelle Bolsonaro voted in the country’s presidential elections on Sunday while wearing a T-shirt displaying an Israeli flag, according to Israeli media.

Her husband, Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has fallen silent after his chastening election defeat to his leftist rival Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

The Times of Israel reported that “Bolsonaro, who enjoys the support of the country’s millions of evangelical Christians, pledged to move Brazil’s embassy to Jerusalem, but in the end opened a trade and investment office in the capital.”

Brazil’s First Lady Michelle Bolsonaro shows up to vote in an Israel flag t-shirt, a move sure to excite @jairbolsonaro’s many millions of evangelical supporters pic.twitter.com/OIIf2qPbG2

— Lazar Berman (@Lazar_Berman) October 30, 2022

The defeat makes Bolsonaro the first serving president in Brazilian history to be voted out of office. Lula will take over on 1 January 2023.

With 100% of votes counted, Lula secured 50.9% to Bolsonaro’s 49.10%. Lula received 60.3m votes while the rightwing incumbent had 58.2m.

“At a time when Brazilians vote in one of their most consequential elections in recent history, Bolsonaro shows that his priorities do not lie in the interests of the Brazilian people but in a foreign power,” Palestinian journalist and editor of The Palestine Chronicle Ramzy Baroud said.

“While this phenomenon is not confined to Brazil, as it is also the norm in American elections, it is particularly tragic in the case of Brazil, as the country faces immense socio-economic and political challenges that require true loyalty to the nation, not to Israel,” Baroud added.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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