The leader Carlos Viana, of the Casa do Brasil in Lisbon, defended this Monday that the vote of Brazilians in Portugal for the next presidential elections in his country will be “more balanced” than in 2018, with the participation of young people.
“The Brazilian community is very divided into social classes, because social inequality in Brazil is reproduced here” and the richest, who vote for the candidate Jair Bolsonaro, have increased a lot in Portugal in recent years, Carlos Viana considered in statements to Lusa.
so today the level of people with university education in the Brazilian community in Portugal “is already much higher” than what exists in Brazil.
In 2018, the current Brazilian president and candidate Jair Bolsonaro won by an overwhelming majority, with more advantage, in proportion to the set of voters who voted, than in Brazil itself, recalled the member of the board of directors of Casa do Brasil in Lisbon.
That means “candidate Bolsonaro has a lot of admirers, loyal voters here,” he added.
But “I think this growth of a few thousand upper-middle class, and even wealthy, people starting to live in Portugal is offset by the growth of more modest immigration,” he said.
This, added to the “disappointment” of those who voted for Bolsonaro in the last elections and the growth of the vote of students, especially university students, with greater political awareness and a large census of young people will, in the opinion of Carlos Viana, less balance The vote. .
“There were many young people who registered at the consulate”he stressed and today there are 80,000 voters who will vote in Portugal, he considered, calling on everyone to vote on October 2, the date set for the next presidential elections in Brazil.
Carlos Viana also pointed out that in the next elections the candidate Lula da Silva represents a coalition of ten partieshe is not just a PT candidate.
“The true wave, which we call Bolsonarista, which occurred in 2018, will not be repeated,” he considered.
Casa do Brasil, which is an association that supports all Brazilian immigrants, “has no candidate”, as its leader stressed, but it has positioned itself against the government of Jair Bolsonaro, he clarified, specifically since the Covid-19 pandemic.
We can see this polarization that we continue there in Brazil, here in Portugal, very clearly, and also in Braga”, says the president of the UAI – Luso-Brazilian Sociocultural Association for the Support of Integration in Portugal.
Alexandra Gormiche says that the tendency to vote for Bolsonaro is justified by Brazilian immigrants “because of the existing models” in these elections, one more conservative and the other more progressive.
“The profile of immigrants in Braga is very heterogeneous, we have families with income from Brazil who live here, who have greater purchasing power, but we also have many people who have come looking for work,” he explained.
Therefore, “this election for me is unknown,” he added. “We expect a second round between Lula and Bolsonaro, but only when the result comes out will we be sure,” she stressed.
It is estimated that around 15,000 Brazilians live in the municipality of Braga.
Source: Observadora
