Featured image: leaflets distributed by activists in Feijó, Acre. Source: A Nova Democracia (AND).

A campaign to boycott the electoral farce is being carried out for some weeks in Brazil. At the beginning of the month we reported on the foundation of the first Committee to Boycott the Electoral Farce in Rio de Janeiro. Later on it was reported that in Manaus there was a demonstration against the major of the city and the electoral farce was exposed. Numerous residents demanded explanations about what was being done regarding their problems and also demanded solutions for the infrastructure, which is in a very bad situation for decades and has not been solved by any kind of government. In the same city several interviews showed the very bad situation of the public transport and security in Manaus, which is revealing the lies of the major, made during the elections. This at the same time has shown once again the electoral farce portrayed in Brazil.

In the city of Feijó, state of Acre, at the Amazonian periphery, activists from the Local Committee to Support AND have distributed leaflets and spoke with the local population, denouncing the wage increase of the councilors of the region. The people expressed their rejection to the electoral farce in many ways: first they thought that the activists were asking for the vote for a political Party and then they expressed their anger and rejection to it; when they knew that the activists were actually against the electoral farce, the population was interested and spoke with the activists; after a while, many of the local inhabitants asked for more leaflets to spread them among their friends and family. The inhabitants of Feijó also expressed their anger and indignation in many occasions against the cretin politicians of the region and against the election period.

On 9th of September activists of the Local Committee to Support AND, distributed around 400 leaflets in Derby, Recife, Pernambuco. They denounced the electoral farce and called the masses to boycott the elections. In the leaflet spread it was denounced how the governor of Pernambuco, João Campos has multiplied his fortune 11-times since he is in charge of the region, while on the other hand he has taken away the rights from the people and has not solved at all the obvious and severe problems of the people. All of this attracted big attention from the local workers, which expressed their anger. AND quotes a comment from a local worker: “Me myself I do not vote anymore, I never gave credit to those politicians. Everything what has the people, has achieved by itself, and them [the political leaders from the old Brazilian State] just show up to ask the population to vote them”.


AND Leaflet which framework is the boycott campaign carried out in Recife. Source: AND.

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