Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro lashed out at recent polls showing him trailing leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the run-up to October’s elections as he kicked off his bid for reelection on Sunday.
“A deceiving poll published a thousand times will not turn someone into the President of the Republic,” he told supporters during an event hosted by the Liberal Party in Brasilia, recasting the 2018 messianic discourse that drove him to power.
The right-wing leader, who’s seeking a second term amid growing economic challenges that will potentially determine the outcome of this year’s election, framed the upcoming runoff as a fight against an internal enemy.
