Female suffrage is, increasingly, a very important thread in . And around the world, women are voting more left than men. But, in Brazil, one of the great electoral assets, the conservative, shuffled the race.
In the last decade, the trend has become increasingly clear: there is a large divide between female voting and male voting. While they tend to be more progressive and vote more to the left, they are more conservative and vote more to the right.
This is the case in Brazil and Portugal, but also, for example, in the United States, the United Kingdom or Germany.
It’s easy to understand why this happens: many of these right-wing and ultra-right parties are against abortion and defend old-fashioned gender roles, privileging the image of the mother of the family and the “beautiful, modest and homely” lady.
A reductive identity that emancipated women, especially younger ones, reject.
The case of Brazil, with elections just around the corner, is curious.
Since 1934, women’s vote has officially become a universal right, and today they make up the majority of the electorate (around 53%) and show up more often to vote. Studies show that in past presidential elections, women’s votes were decisive for the result, due to the greater number of undecided voters, who choose their candidates more critically, cautiously and late, in the final stretch of the campaign.
However, last week, this presidential pre-race suffered another shock, with the unexpected intervention of Michelle Bolsonaro.
The former president’s wife is seen as a great electoral asset, because she softens the high female rejection of Bolsonaro, captures an evangelical electorate very well and
built its own strong political capital in PL Mulher. In other words, it could reduce the “gender gap” that has benefited left-wing candidates among women, bringing the female vote closer to the right, especially in religious segments.
But now, to the delight of the left, she has shaken Flávio’s already shaky campaign, accusing him, indirectly, of being sexist and misogynist, which is still a huge incongruity, because she herself is quite conservative. Suffice it to say that Michelle attacks feminism and says that PL women don’t want to “compete with men, they want to help them”…
What more surprises Michelle still has in store, we don’t know. But one thing is certain: neither side will want to give up this very important female vote.
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