Lula says pretend information reigns supreme in Brazil’s municipal elections
Some candidacies don’t have any dedication apart from to impress, to inform lies, Lula insisted
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva insisted this weekend that pretend information had been broadly used as a marketing campaign software forward of Sunday’s municipal elections nationwide. We’re seeing a large amount of ‘pretend information’, a large number of lies, of provocations, Lula confused. Now there are candidacies that don’t have any dedication apart from to impress, to inform lies, he additionally identified when casting his vote in Sao Bernardo do Campo, in Higher Sao Paulo, the place he developed his commerce union and political profession for the reason that Seventies.
The president additionally underlined that it was as much as Congress to move a invoice to control false information on social media. He made these remarks with Sao Paulo mayoral hopeful Guilherme Boulos in thoughts. The Socialism and Freedom Occasion candidate had been a sufferer of false alerts disseminated by way of the social community Instagram by the politician Pablo Marçal, of the Brazilian Labor Renovation Occasion, by falsifying a medical doc to assault his opponent. Nonetheless, these techniques weren’t sufficient for Marçal to advance to the runoff. However the case did earn him a courtroom ban on his Instagram account.
Lula additionally warned that these elections had been the time to watch the habits of every candidate and their proposals, so individuals didn’t vote in an uninformed means.
Sunday’s polls had been additionally thought to be a prelude to the 2026 presidential elections. The electoral campaigns included massive doses of foul play such because the case of the TV debate during which there have been even accusations of sexual assault of a minor by a candidate.
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