Lula campaigns for support in Rio de Janeiro favela

(12 Oct 2022) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Rio de Janeiro – 12 October 2022 1. Supporters of Brazilian presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva marching through main street of Alemão favela 2. Various of Lula amid crowd on back of SUV 3. Lula supporters filming with their phones 4. Lula supporters sat outside bar waving flags 5. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Jorge Antonio, Director of Engineers Union: "We have been campaigning for Lula for a long time. Lula is the best option. His is the third way, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth, all ways together. The people aiming for reconstructing the country." 6. Lula speaking to crowd with child 7. Crowd waving flags 8. Lula's car passing through crowd 9. Crowd waving flags 10. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazilian presidential candidate: "I doubt that you will find any construction from this president (Jair Bolsonaro) here in the Alemão complex. I doubt that you will find construction by him in Rocinha (favela). I doubt that you will find any construction by him anywhere in this state. Because he only lies every single day." 11. Crowd waving flags 12. Giant effigy of Lula amid supporters STORYLINE: Brazilian presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva campaigned alongside thousands of supporters Wednesday through the streets of the Alemao favela in northern Rio de Janeiro. Da Silva is hoping to strengthen his popularity among Brazil's poor just two weeks before his runoff against incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. Lula was accompanied by Rio's mayor, Eduardo Paes, and community leader Rene Silva, a Black activist and founder of a well-established news outlet that focuses on the city's working-class neighborhoods. While he won the first round of the election with over 48% of the votes – against 43% for Bolsonaro – the leftist Workers' Party candidate trails more than 10 points behind in the state of Rio. In the favelas and outskirts of large Brazilian cities, however, da Silva has regained much of the ground his party had lost in recent years, according to results from the first election round held on October 2. The Alemão favela is one of Rio's largest, with some 60,000 residents, according to official records, but unofficially the number who live there is double that. Some 63% of the favela residents earn no more than minimum wage, R$1.238 (USD $230), a month, according to IBASE (Social and Economic Analyses Brazilian Institute). AP video by Mario Lobão and Lucas Dumphreys =========================================================== Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: info@aparchive.com (ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service (iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives ​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/2de29c302183494c8fc4bbd19d65ea7f