Brazilian women rise up against leading presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro

Posted 2 October 2018 23:23 GMT

Tensions are rising in Brazil as citizens prepare to vote for president, vice president, and the National Congress in General Elections on October 7, 2018.

Citizens strongly oppose presidential candidate Congressman Jair Bolsonaro, a former military officer currently leading in the polls. Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets in several Brazilian cities on Saturday, September 29, 2018, to say: #NotHim, #NeverHim (#EleNão, #EleNunca, #EleJamais).

According to the latest results from Datafolha Institute, Bolsonaro has 28 percent of projected votes, followed by the Workers’ Party nominee, Fernando Haddad, with 22 percent. However, Bolsonaro has the largest margin of rejection: an estimated 46 percent of Brazilians say they would never vote for him. Among women, who represent more than half of the 147 million voters, it reaches 52 percent.

And women are the loudest voices in the #NotHim movement against Bolsonaro, a candidate who openly espouses misogynist and homophobic rhetoric. The video below shows thousands at national protests across Brazil:

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https://globalvoices.org/2018/10/02/brazilian-women-rise-up-against-leading-presidential-candidate-jair-bolsonaro/