Bolsonaro kicks off presidential bid at Rio event

(24 Jul 2022)
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Rio de Janeiro - 24 July 2022
1. Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro and First Lady Michelle Bolsonaro arriving at Bolsonaro's campaign launch party with crowds of supporters wearing yellow and green
2. Bolsonaro and First Lady waving at the crowd and pointing up
3. Wide of rally
4. Wide of rally with Bolsonaro onstage and person speaking through a microphone
5. Supporters clapping
6. Pan of supporters
7. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Jair Bolsonaro, Brazilian President:
"We have to bring the young leftists to our side, show them the truth. Show them what they have to lose with their candidate. Where their candidate supported others through South America, look at the misery that the country is in. Look at Venezuela, that (late president Hugo) Chávez and (Nicolás) Maduro had his support (Lula). Look at where Argentina is going, its economy, a country once prosperous, 50% of its population is close to the poverty line."
8. Crowd of supporters in the stands UPSOUND (Portuguese) "Myth. Myth."
9. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Jair Bolsonaro, Brazilian President:
"With his veto power, he (Vladimir Putin) said, 'the Amazon is Brazilian and no more talking.' Some wanted me to be by the side of those who wanted the Amazon for them. The Amazon is ours, it won't be shared with the world."
10. Supporters cheering UPSOUND (Portuguese): "Our flag will never be red."
11. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Jair Bolsonaro, Brazilian President:
"These few deaf (individuals) who wear a black cape (Supreme Court Ministers) have to understand what the voice of the people is. They have to understand that those who make the laws are the executive and legislative power."
12. Bolsonaro and Michelle Bolsonaro at the end of the speech UPSOUND (Portuguese) "Brazil above everything, God above all!"
13. Wide of rally
14. Michelle Bolsonaro holding an Israel Flag with a Lion reading (Portuguese) "Lion of Judah"
15. Bolsonaro, Michelle Bolsonaro, guests and supporters praying
16. Bolsonaro leaving the event and waving
STORYLINE:
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro made official his bid to run for reelection in October, giving him three months to try to secure victory.
The Liberal Party's formal approval of Bolsonaro's candidacy took place at its convention in a stadium at Rio de Janeiro.
Support was widely expected and merely symbolic, given that the far-right president has effectively been campaigning for months, crisscrossing the country to drum up support and remind voters why they shouldn't back his nemesis, leftist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Bolsonaro has sought to characterize the upcoming race as a battle between good and evil, echoing his 2018 campaign that presented him as an outsider crusading to restore law, order and conservative values to a wayward nation.
He joined the centrist Liberal Party in November after failing to found his own party.
People snaked through lines to enter the stadium, where the campaign jingle "Captain of the People" played repeatedly.
Cheering supporters were decked out in the green-and-yellow national colors, though there were dozens of empty seats in the stadium, which has capacity of about 13,600.
Da Silva, leads all polls to return to his former job — as he had in 2018 until his removal from that race due to a corruption conviction.
That enabled Bolsonaro, then a seven-term fringe lawmaker, to cruise to victory.
Da Silva's conviction was annulled last year by the Supreme Court that ruled the judge overseeing the probe had been biased and colluded with prosecutors.
Bolsonaro faces an uphill battle.

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