During event in Linhares (ES), this Friday (11), President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) intensified the attacks to former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and licensed deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP), directly relating the Bolsonaro family performance to the decision of the United States to apply one
The measure, announced by US President Donald Trump, entered the center of the national political dispute, rekindling the antagonism between petistas and bolsonarists.
Lula mocked the performance of Eduardo, who has been in the United States since the beginning of the year and has been promoting meetings with US officials. “Because the thing [Bolsonaro] sent a son who was a deputy [Eduardo] Going away from the chamber to go there, to be asking, ‘ô Trump, for God’s sake, saves my father, does not let my father be arrested, ”said Lula, in a mockery, imitating the parliamentarian.
The Planalto Palace has invested in the narrative that the “tariff” imposed by Trump configures unacceptable interference with Brazilian sovereignty, seeking to displace the debate to the field of nationalism.
Strategic response and narrative war
Lula used the crisis as political ammunition. Amid the drop in popularity recorded by recent research, the president has been betting on external confrontation rhetoric to unite his base and strengthen the image of sovereign leader. “Brazil is from Brazilians,” he said, using the slogan printed in the cap he wore at the event.
Lula’s pronouncement to the nation, which should take place between Friday (11) and Saturday (12), seeks to consolidate this discourse. The government also works to isolate Bolsonaro’s image as responsible for the deterioration of US relations, while trying to keep the diplomatic way to reverse the “tariff”, expected to take effect on August 1.
