Presidential election in Brazil: Neymar shows his support for Bolsonaro on social networks – archyde

President Jair Bolsonaro must have been delighted with the initiative. Neymar, PSG player and idol of an entire country, published a video on Thursday in which he raises a question that no longer made many people doubt: his support for the outgoing president, three days before the election in which the extreme president right Bolsonaro faces former president Lula (left), who governed the country between 2003 and 2011. In this video, Neymar does not speak directly to call for a Bolsonaro bulletin to be slipped. In front of his eight million subscribers, he takes up a song calling for a vote on Sunday for number 22, that of the president. Neymar also mimics his fingers clicking on the voting machine. This video was noticed in the Bolsonaro clan. His son, Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, quickly relayed the publication of the PSG star, welcoming this obvious support. The relationship between the footballer and the far-right president looks like a long romance. On Wednesday, Neymar published another video to thank the head of state four short days before the presidential election, for having visited the Instituto Neymar Jr, the charitable foundation founded by the player and which welcomes some 3,000 children from poor area. “Thank you for your visit. I would very much like to be there, in your company, but unfortunately I am far away, ”Neymar said then. In the past, Neymar has regularly taken care to appear with Jair Bolsonaro. A behavior that is necessarily decisive in Brazil, as the footballers enjoy a significant influence. Politicians, and in particular Jair Bolsonaro, have understood this perfectly, and are seeking the support of soccer stars. Bolsonaro is ahead in the voting intentions of ex-Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva by 14 points. Lula has indeed collected 48% of voting intentions, against 47% a week ago, and Bolsonaro has also progressed by one point, to 34%, indicates the benchmark institute Datafolha. The two favorites increased their lead over third-placed Ciro Gomes (centre left) from 7 per cent to 6 per cent and Simone Tebet (centre right) stable at 5 per cent. Lula, who once governed Brazil from 2003 to 2010, can be elected for a third term in the first round on Sunday if he obtains more than 50% of the votes cast (without nulls or whites). According to Datafolha’s count, he is precisely credited with 50% of these voting intentions expressed, as a week ago, against 36% for the far-right president (35% in the last poll). This score from the left-wing ex-president remains within the poll’s margin of error (+ or – 2 percentage points), leaving uncertainty hanging over the holding of a second round on October 30.