Declaration comes amid fears Jair Bolsonaro could attempt January 6-style coup to retain power if voted out in October
and Brazil’s biggest pop star, Anitta. She has described October’s election as a battle between Voldemort and Dumbledore, with Bolsonaro representing JK Rowling’s Dark Lord.
Large crowds of students, activists and academics packed Rio’s Catholic University to hear the pronouncement, flanked by banners reading: ‘Democracy is life’. “This is something historic. It is an important moment to resist,” said Maria Clara Walcacer, a 22-year-old psychology student who had come wearing a lilac sticker that read “Bolsonaro out!”
It also pushed ahead with several pharaonic infrastructure projects including the still unfinished Trans-Amazonian highway and the eight-mile bridge across Rio’s Guanabara bay. But the pro-democracy “Diretas Já” movement only hit its stride in 1984 with a series of vast and historic street rallies in cities such as Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Belo Horizonte.
Reis voiced hope citizens would vote out Bolsonaro but, like many, fears he will not go quietly: “If he loses the election it is very likely that he will contest the vote. Everything he says is paving the way for this.
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