RIO DE JANEIRO: More than half a million people have signed a petition in 'defense of democracy' in Brazil in response to President Jair Bolsonaro's attacks on public institutions and the electoral system.
With the presidential election just two months away, in which Bolsonaro trails former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in opinion polls, the petition launched by members of the faculty of law at the University of São Paulo had passed 546,000 signatures midway through Saturday (Sunday in Manila).
THREAT TO DEMOCRACY? In this file photo taken on June 7, 2022, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro delivers a speech during a meeting called ‘Brazil for Life and Family’ and promoted by an antiabortion movement at Planalto Palace in Brasilia. A petition ‘in defense of democracy’ in Brazil, signed in particular by representatives of powerful employers’ associations, has gathered more than half a million signatures in less than a week, while Bolsonaro is multiplying his attacks on the institutions and the electoral system. AFP PHOTO
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