The Bolsonarist businessman and influencer stated, in criticism of the former first lady, that women vote very poorly — especially single women, as married women would tend to follow their husbands’ votes.
The statement was made in a video on her YouTube channel published on Thursday (25), in which she also said, in a critical tone, that the former first lady is a feminist.
Figueiredo suggested, in the video, that anyone who was unhappy with his speech could “pull the pubes out of their panties”. The excerpts were quoted by the columnist of Sheet .
The day before the live, Michelle had released two videos on social media in which she claimed to have suffered attacks from her stepchildren due to political differences over the assembly of the electoral ticket in Ceará. The former first lady said it was done by the senator (-RJ), who was anointed by her father, the former president (PL), to be the clan’s representative in the race for President.
Grandson of , the last president of the military dictatorship, Paulo Figueiredo lives in us and has been one of those between the government and the Bolsonaro family, to whom he is close.
When commenting on Michelle’s videos, in a live broadcast lasting one hour and 46 minutes, he criticized the former first lady, who is president of PL Mulher, for what she said about Flávio. “Where Flávio is worse [nas pesquisas eleitorais] it is precisely in the female electorate”, he stated, before ironizing: “Congratulations! Nice help.”
According to the most recent Datafolha survey, Lula wins over Flávio by 52% to 37% among female voters in a simulated second round. In the men’s category, the Bolsonarista wins by 50% to 41%.
Figueiredo also said that Michelle and senator (-DF), who was minister of Women, Family and Human Rights in the Bolsonaro government, are feminists.
“Many women think they are feminists just because they understand that they need to have the same rights as men. That is not feminism,” he said. According to the influencer, feminism has a Marxist matrix and “carries with it ideas of all kinds, like the ones Michelle speaks about with so much pride.”
Throughout the broadcast, Figueiredo mentioned that Flávio is not the only right-wing candidate to have been rejected by the female electorate and stated that, if only a sample of women’s votes in the United States had been made, “all those elected would have been Democrats to this day, including the [ex-vice-presidente dos EUA e adversária de Trump na eleição de 2024]”, with the exception of Ronald Reagan.
The statement preceded the declaration that women vote poorly.
“Women vote statistically very poorly. Mainly single women. Married women, in general, tend to follow their husband’s vote. Single women, no. That’s what I’m saying… You can pull the pubes out of your panties, do whatever you want, especially the feminists, who have more pubes, but I want to tell you: that’s statistics,” he said.
Whether in the USA or Brazil, polling data does not allow us to know the vote of specific demographic groups, due to the secrecy of the vote, but opinion polls carried out before or after the vote show greater rejection of Flávio and Jair Bolsonaro and greater support, as a rule, for democratic candidates, but not for all.
According to data from opinion polls by the American Women and Politics research center, linked to Rutgers University, female voters preferred the Republican candidate not only in Reagan’s election and re-election (1980 and 1984), but also in Bush’s in 1988.
This does not mean that the Democrats would automatically have won the Presidency in all other elections, because the result of the election depends on the distribution of votes by state in the Electoral College.
In the video, Figueiredo “is always the left” who does better among female voters and “what has PL Mulher done to improve this story? Rosca, zero”.
Figueiredo also made fun of the fact that Michelle called Bolsonaro a Galician.
“Don’t you feel like cutting your wrists a little, just to see what happens, every time she speaks my Galician? Doesn’t it sound fake? Especially if you knew the things I know…”, he insinuated.
Rejection
Flávio’s campaign has been seeking, since the release of Michelle’s videos, a way to curb negative effects on female voters. One of the bets is the indication of .
According to the most recent Datafolha, the senator is the presidential candidate among women: when asked which candidates would not vote at all in the first round of the election, 53% of voters cited Flávio. President Lula (PT), his biggest opponent in the dispute, was mentioned by 40% of women.
Like his son, Jair Bolsonaro also showed greater rejection among women. Throughout his political career, the former president collected sexist phrases, such as when he stated that federal deputy Maria do Rosário (PT-RS) did not deserve to be raped “”. He was ordered to recant and pay compensation.
He also called out PT women in a video and declared that he had “weakened” by having a female daughter after having four sons. Furthermore, it promoted .
