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A new la da silva here they are debating on august the 29th through the shade. And by if the country i left is a country that the people mess it was a country of employment. It was a country where people had the rights to live with dignity, with their heads up in this country will come back if you paper copies. So there was corruption, president lula. You want to come back. What for you to keep doing the same thing. And petro, battle rife, keep a little bit there for the workers party, the worse off the people are the poor, the better for them to do politics off those people, if you so much of. So you have to very different candidates. Now what would you like to know about them on todays show . We are going to be exploring key Campaign Issues and whats at stake . The brazilians, you can do in a conversation right here in the Comment Section on you tube. Ah, oh, expert expert panel, hello. Lona, i be honest to see is so lovely to have all 3 of you here. We are going to unpack the upcoming elections. Whats that state . Whats going on in brazil right now in know, welcome, please say hello to our audience around the world. Thank your family. My name is alina zabel, im the co founder, president of they got are easy to get to have you. I deanna welcome, please say hello to audience. Thank you for having me. I me, im of the english market. My manager asked students for liberty, brazil that to happen. And cecilia, nice to see you, please say hello mazda c a to thank you so much for inviting me. Im cecilia. Throw naggie. Im managing editor at americas quarterly. All right, very good. I am going to get you guess, to build a picture of what these 2 candidates are like. Lets put up the candidate hes currently present at the moment. Cecilia, tell me 2 things about post now or that will be helpful for International Audience to know. Both narrow came and from left field, even though his on the right. He just surprised everybody when he got elected. He is a long time politician who was in congress for almost 30 years as a french character who just exploded in 2018 as the leading candidate with they got the scorsone, a rhetoric of supporting families, freedom which to ham, equates a right to have guns and against abortion, and for family and specially religion. All right, and it did, cecilia, any of you anything more to add to post now so we get this instant picture of how hes campaigning. What is hes like . What did he style like you . Cecilia just put them in the right place, but i would say that these in a far life are right. Candidates like very much like trump and the week there are been populous, authoritarian leaders that are trying to undermine democracy from within. And thats an important feature for this election because it to them, its an election about democracy. We have so it feels that weve got to polar opposites as leading candidates. Lets have a look at louise in astro new lead to silva. Put his candidate caught up and this time a known if you start with 2 things that would be helpful for us to know before we get deep into our conversation to or so lula is pregnant. That came from the people he had the to context of mandates and was responsible for include the most number, the populations in, lets say the lower and middle middle class. So he comes with a flag of were going to be happy again. He left also with the corruption gambles. The processes that you are facing were notified by the Justice System because they were not respecting the due process according to our supreme court. So he wants to come back to just try another another time to show what his par, to should do for the brazilian people see here that yeah, and this is sort of a playback this election should have been in 2018. So any 2018 hula was ahead in the polls when he was arrested and taken to jail under the legation that that they learned just mentioned. So he was taken out of that run right, a few months before the election. So now were actually sort of re read the reliving a 2018 election. But guess lula has a banner of poverty fighting against poverty. He was a poor man himself. He came from a very, very poor family that migrated from the northeast almost on foot and had, you know, very little education and sort of like pulled himself out from the bootstraps and became a new union leader. Very well known love to global. Hes a relatively well spoken man. I mean, he really has the power of words and resonates with people. But so does sonora in a completely different narrative . But hes also incredibly powerful in his speech. I be on, im wondering what the atmosphere is like in brazil, right . Now fema weeks to go before the elections. What is at stake for sale at this point in terms of social conditions, living conditions, what might be possible depending on what happens on october . The 2nd well actually we are facing a very polarized environment right now where dan sions are alike all over the place. Actually, i just hope that whoever gets selected, we have a little more space to debate peacefully because i see maybe there, there is a, arise of violent speeches, etc. So im kind of worried that this may get worse depending on who gets elected. Can you give me an example when you say theres a rise of violet speech or say youve got a better view of that than we have . What does that mean . What have you had basically on social media. I think elena will agree with me that something that we see every day actually on where people are attacking each other, you know, you know, very hostile wait, actually. And it seems like we can debate politics in the city more. I need you start. And then cecilia, you pick out of that because i know that these are the very important the so i think, you know, i hate speech. This information is information is not new, but it has been with us in the last elections. But just to say that there is a different thing now, which is the rhetoric, especially from being grown, but in terms of Political Violence that people should respond to a new result, which is not the result of he winnie with violence. Take the guns that he allowed people to buy and then just in his speech, protect democracy, which is which of course so i would argue that its against them all proceed, but thats, thats what is at stake. I believe a Political Violence. Silica head. Yeah, i was just going to add another over address actually throw you another question to, to a loaner because via were, were seeing just a day in the news. Again, another person who was killed by another one by an a political discussion. And the man just, you know, killing each other, that was another men celebrating his Birthday Party was killed because he had lula banners around his Birthday Party. So this is trans ladies, its moving out of social media. And we had this push for more guns on the streets, and that to me is those scariest part of this moment in, in my country, is this push for more weapons and elona . Thats what i would say because of the rise was what, like some 300 percent more guns in the hands of civilians since 2018. Something like that. Right . Im absolutely. Cecilia. So this to say, you know, i work for over 20 years in Civil Society and like with a non partisan independent organization. But were here really facing tracks. Sure. The more graphic system watha down abroad in terms of a lack of dialogue. We had the closure of facing this country that was unprecedented since the dictatorship time. So what theyre facing now is really the, the intent of not accepting their was the results of the election. And of course, society and institutions are pushing back against that. But were having to restate every day our support for democracy, the crown through and my organization has been leading the gun control. I Say Initiative with another Organization Called the school to so the past 2 to be able to have art, lets say, a Evidence Base dialogue of what it means to leave in a democrat state. Or people have to like accept the rule of the law and cannot pick justice into their own hands. I to on and let me share with you some headlines that we picked out their international headlines. I some concerns from outside of brazil, on my laptop here, brazils president ial Campaign Kicks off and made fears of violence. Facebook i would, i matter is failing to prevent repaint of january the 6th in brazil report warns than imminent election crisis in brazil are these over wrought with these accurate i think its accurate actually, because like i said, we are facing a very polarized campaign, Political Campaign and, and since the beginning of the campaign, i feel that things are getting a little bit worse in this sense. Um, because like i told you before, you go social media in to see people that can each other. Like, it seems like we are not able to more to talk as individuals will have to respect each others views. And thats something that really worries me because i liked elona said its democracy who is at stake. So its important to us to learn how to talk to each other again with respect and peacefully. Lets talk about issues that are impacting voters. And sometimes what from the Campaign Child is not what really is needed for the country. Im wondering if theres a disconnect there, but for you to see that what is one of the most Critical Issues that will be important when people go to vote and they make that decision hunger. I think for, you know, if you have 33000000 people hungry and a country its, you know, when he gets to the vote, its one vote one person. It doesnt matter what your bank account is like. So right now we do have several cohorts of society that support one or the other, but a large one that they are hungry, they need food on the table. So i think that for a very large bit of the population, because the 33000000 that are going hungry, then you can add easily several other 1000000 people who are just scraping by. So once you have this scenario, i think thats what its going to count the most at the moment of voting. I would agree, i just said the cost of living in general has increased the many as in many other parts of the world. But brazil faces an economic crisis. People are like with difficulty the pain, theyre b o. So unemployment. I also see people worried about health and education. So the public goods provision and of course so violence, acute is always also in the order of the day. So its a, its a jobs economics and public goods election. What about indigenous vote is because often may all pushed out of the thinking of what, where is brazil going next . Something that luna is always been thinking about, but both sonora has changed that trend in the last few years. Climate save me amazon. Who is that important to the voters . Thats, thats very interesting question i cuz i asked myself like, you know, eve, see the world looking at the brazil and thinking of brazil as, as, as a big amazon and to the issues there. But you go into the amazon and you see a population that needs jobs and who is employing them, who is giving them jobs, illegal loggers, illegal miners, and people who are pushing deforestation. So these are jobs and you know, the larger groups that are behind this push are not the ones actually doing, but cutting out the trees. So you have a real issue that both scenarios support in a north despite his a b, lets say a weird environmental a policies its, its very strong because these are their jobs. So i think that there is a great disconnect there. But if i may say, so given the indigenous, i think that one thing that happened since 2018 is that the indigenous groups got a lot more voice and guts and are getting a lot stronger. So i think if there is any benefit to the old is the, you know, insanity that its happening on their situation. Its that even though it, the, because it got worse to them. I think they got more of a voice and theyre getting heard more and more active and more organized even, you know, Indigenous Women are organizing and several other groups. So i think that there is strength in numbers and they are still need support from the outside. But i think they are getting stronger. Let me just now keep sure. Um yeah, i think i should have us. No, i think that was a very important issue because it on the one hand cecilia thoughtfully. Right, to say they got more voice and theyre coming bigger numbers. I think its the highest number since we started recording the number of candidates that self declare indigenous. But its also because they are under threat your toward the territory or under threat. So they feel they need to mobilize politically. So you see a pushback and its a, its a good the pushback in representation and we hope you know, many of them got elected. I want to just play a little bite from luna to silva talking about the Indigenous People of brazil on why they are important to him and also to brazil. Of course, thats how to listen. This country cannot continue to be governed by someone who doesnt like Indigenous People who doesnt like black people who doesnt like women who doesnt like Union Leaders who doesnt like the amazon who doesnt like serrato catania. The amazon rain forest who doesnt like its people. So we wouldnt be completely about talk about election without talking about misinformation. Was the information out there. I think that thats now typical for every election that has any digital input adiana. Whats been on your whats that messages recently on one sec . Yeah, actually i know theres a lot of fake news. We have a lot of groups today so you can go around, you know, and what is dangerous about it is that information spreads really quickly. So i get something like, i dont know, at 4 oclock in than 430, Everybody Knows the same thing. And sometimes its a misleading information that i will talk about. Ask will, what kind of misleading information. Because then weve said it on al jazeera, but give me an idea of saying that its obviously so ludicrous that everybody is not going to believe it. Um, basically formation about the 2 candidates leading candidates, both on i dont and lula and misleading formation about both of them. Thats what i see the most. Actually like, like i said before, it seems like people can talk im, im on a peaceful level. So they have to attack each other and most of the time using lice to do it. So, oh, i dont actually know how gonna to when to fight this because everybody is free to share whatever they want. But, but its a, its a problem were facing right now because many people dont go after information to try to find the truthful for themselves. And they believe the 1st thing they see. Yes, this no, no, go along as i was just company, that is one of the scariest thing. Yeah, and i would say one of the most of the mental one is the ones that support the into question, our electoral voting system, which is a very modern 11. 00 that elected including a current president and did all that he and his group a tried the whole time to discredit the system, saying there is a secret room that would control and the fraud brazil elections. And i think this is a very, very dangerous message, because unfortunately it, when we see the poles, the presence, 2 quarters do believe that the election sir, can be further than that war fraud. Even if he was elected. Yeah, i yeah. He said that he wanted a 1st round, he didnt lose, he didnt win and 2nd, right for them. Right . Not one example actually of you know, yes it run you if i dont when the election has been stolen . Absolutely. Let me, i this is, its so interesting area. We spoke to maria, who is the direc