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Pastors with 50 million followers on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter give a virtual platform to Jair Bolsonaro (PL), candidate for reelection in the race for the Presidential Palace. Together, the top ten religious leaders supporting the president echo messages of the fight of “good” against “evil” and of a “war,” in line with the president’s speech. In reaction to Bolsonaro’s advance, the campaign of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) decided to create profiles on social networks directed to evangelicals.
Of the religious leaders identified by Estadão on the digital platforms, three of them, with 23.3 million followers, make an explicit video call to the September 7 events. In the recording, an announcer repeats the Bolsonarist slogans “God, homeland, family, and freedom” and “our flag will never be red.
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Second in the polls, the president intends to show strength in the Bicentennial of Independence, after calling into question, without evidence, the smoothness of the electronic ballot boxes. The Federal Police never found any evidence of fraud in the equipment, unlike in the days of paper ballots.
