Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will struggle to win re-election unless he reverses his fortunes with the nation's women, polls say
With the election just three months off, some polls show only one in five women will vote for the tough-talking, pro-gun, motorcycle-riding former Army captain. If that holds true Oct. 2, Bolsonaro could lose outright to his nemesis, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, without need for a runoff. Almost half of Brazilian women say they will vote for the president's opponent.
Since then, Bolsonaro has hemorrhaged female support. That's in part due to his handling of the pandemic and insistence upon sowing doubt about the efficacy of vaccines, even stringently opposing their use among children, said Esther Solano, a sociologist at the Federal University of Sao Paulo. The president remains unvaccinated against COVID-19 and a country with a proud tradition of successful vaccine campaigns saw the world's second-highest COVID-19 death toll.
“Back then in the pandemic the handouts worked. They saved a lot of mothers,” said dos Santos, 35. “Now, I spend these 400 reais at the supermarket and inflation eats a large part of it. During the Lula days, we ate.” Allies also have urged Bolsonaro to choose a female running mate, such as Tereza Cristina, his former agriculture minister, according to the same four officials. Instead, he has said he will choose a fellow military man, Gen. Walter Braga Netto, an adviser to the president. He could still change his mind before an August deadline, though that appears increasingly unlikely, his allies told the AP.
Meantime, some women who were once potential Bolsonaro voters are now actively working to unseat him.
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