The feminine vote is against Bolsonaro, considering he has attacked them in the past

The sexist statements expressed by the candidate for the presidency of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, against women, can be decisive in the upcoming elections on October 7. Despite having more than 26% vote intention, according to the pollster Datafolha, 46% of the female electorate has declared that they would not vote for Bolsonaro under any circumstances.

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The candidate for the presidency, the Social Democrat, Geraldo Alckmin has used as political campaigns several videos where Bolsonaro insults women. For instance, when Bolsonaro refers "to a journalist who qualifies as an idiot and a deputy, Maria Rosario Nunes, whom he called a vagabond and who did not deserve to be raped before the television cameras", says the EFE news agency. For this last act, Bolsonaro has a judicial process in the Supreme Court, confirms EFE.

Women against Bolsonaro

As another consequence of his statements, millions of women expressed their rejection to the possible arrival of Jair Bolsonaro to the most powerful position in Brazil. With the motto "He did not, he never", women manifested their dissatisfaction throughout the country.

"Here there are white people, black, homosexuals, people who are fathers and mothers and who are very diverse, and that kind of candidate, that kind of policy, does not represent that Brazilian culture that has all that diversity," told to AFP, Beatriz Lorena, a 33-year-old teacher who joined the multitudinous protest in the Plaza Cinelandia, in the center of Rio de Janeiro, which ended up overflowing in several nearby streets.

#EleNao has been the trend both on the streets and in social media against Jair Bolsonaro, a lover of the military dictatorship that hit Brazil between 1964 and 1985, in which there were more than 400 dead and disappeared, according to the BBC.

The music, lilac-colored shirts, logos with the #EleNao numeral and flags of several political parties appeared on the march against Bolsonaro.

The argument of Brazilian women not to vote for Bolsonaro

According to El Comercio, Cristina, a 56-year-old teacher, and one of the many women present at the march, who was also accompanied and supported by her husband, said: "There cannot be a president of Brazil who defends violence, racism, or the devaluation of women. I never saw a candidate like that in an election, only in a dictatorship".

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The #EleNao campaign, which began in September 2018, through the Facebook group "Women united against Bolsonaro" struggles "against the advancement and strengthening of machismo, misogyny, racism, homophobia and other types of prejudice".

Thus, a few days before the presidential elections, Fernando Haddad, the candidate of Lula Da Silva for the Workers' Party (PT), could gain vote intention. So far, as revealed by the recent poll by the MDA institute for the National Confederation of Transport (CNT), he remains in a technical tie against Bolsonaro, in which he could possibly lose, since women, with 56% of the female electorate in all over the country, would vote for Haddad to prevent him from coming to power.

Women will be decisive in the presidential elections in Brazil.

LartinAmerican Post I Edwin Guerrero Nova
Translated from “Brasil: ¿Perderá Bolsonaro la presidencia por el voto femenino?”

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