🔴🧵"An electoral defeat for Flávio would not end the fascist threat. Everything indicates that it would be accompanied by a violent challenge to the results—a repetition, at a higher level, of January 8, 2023—this time under far more explosive conditions and in a Latin America marked by the increasingly direct and violent intervention of US imperialism." The Fraud of PT and the Broad Front, its reactionary character: "The response of the PT and its Broad Front to these developments followed the same reactionary course, deepening its shift to the right throughout the second-round campaign. > On October 15, in an interview with Jornal Nacional, Lula declared himself in favor of lowering the age of criminal responsibility from 18 to 16 for heinous crimes, a hobby horse of the far right that the PT itself opposed for decades. > At the same time, he made the Public Security Constitutional Amendment (PEC), which toughens sentences for members of criminal factions and restricts temporary prison leave and sentence progression, one of his main campaign banners, under the slogan “For the criminal, prison.” > The campaign came to revolve around Geraldo Alckmin—former governor of São Paulo and, for three decades, one of the main leaders of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB), the traditional right-wing party that the PT faced in every presidential election from 1994 to 2014. Lula presented him as the man who understands fiscal adjustment and began considering appointing him finance minister to win the confidence of the markets. > The PT’s latest campaign broadcast features Gen. Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz, Bolsonaro’s former chief minister of the Government Secretariat, and the slogan: “If you’re on the left, vote 13; if you’re on the right, vote 13”—13 being the PT’s ballot number. > Alckmin added: “Right or left, we are all Brazilians.” The message is unmistakable. For the PT, this is not a contest between right and left, but a campaign “for Brazil,” in which the agenda of the right is presented as legitimate and the Broad Front claims for itself the task of carrying it out." - wsws.org (Brazil stages presidential runoff amid global eruption of class struggle)