The detected that the criticism made by evangelicals and other religious sectors to () was widely disseminated on social media, which alarmed a government group.
Lula’s allies received research showing that the immediate repercussion of the parade on the internet was negative for the president.
group most linked to the former president. Attracting the support of these religious people became a government goal this year, as a way of guaranteeing an electoral advantage.
The president’s aides are divided over the consequences of the parade. A government group says it is concerned about the political exploitation of a , but has not yet responded.
Another group of Lula’s allies minimizes it. He says this is not the first time they have tried to discredit the president with the public. The response of these allies is to say that the government had no role in designing the parade and that the side of the parade that dealt with family did not talk about evangelicals. They also remember that, in his first government, they already said that the president would close temples, which did not happen.
Furthermore, this wing also states that there would not be time to measure real wear and tear in a survey, as the parade took place on Sunday (15).
In recent days, the evangelical and Catholic parliamentary fronts criticized Lula for satires on evangelical families and announced the request for legal measures against the samba school Acadêmicos de Niterói in the .
The nuisance of the religious benches occurred in the “” wing, which portrayed families from groups identified with the right (evangelicals and representatives of ), as families inside tin cans.
This Wednesday (18), the senator (PL-RJ) published a meme of his family inside a canned can, mocking and criticizing the Niterói Academic parade.
The Evangelical Parliamentary Front to the school’s “disrespectful and offensive conduct” during Carnival. “It is unacceptable that the right to cultural expression is distorted to promote mockery of the Christian faith and open mockery of the conservative values that sustain our society”, says the text.
Representative Gilberto Nascimento (PSD-SP), president of the front, stated that he will contact the (Attorney General’s Office) and the Judiciary to hold those involved criminally and civilly liable. “What we saw was an affront, regrettably financed with public money, by our taxes”, he states.
The samba school received R$1 million from the (Brazilian Agency for International Tourism Promotion), the same as the other schools in the main group of Rio Carnival.
The president of the Catholic Parliamentary Front, deputy Luiz Gastão (PSD-CE), said that he will demand measures and the action of the competent bodies to properly investigate the facts and eventual accountability.
“The Christian faith is part of Brazil’s historical and social identity and inspires values that structure millions of Brazilian families. Representations that can be interpreted as disqualification or ridicule of these convictions do not contribute to the respectful environment that democracy requires,” he stated in a statement.
The evangelical parliamentary front was reinstalled in this legislature with 210 federal deputies as signatories and 26 senators. The Catholic one was created with the support of 194 deputies. Despite the volume, the number of actually active congressmen who participate in the activities of each group is smaller.
