Cooking gas has become a luxury product in the cities of Acre: the price of a 13-kg bottle is R $ 150 and already represents 16% of the average household income in the state.
Acre residents have become as destitute as other Brazilians over the past two years. Personal income has declined in the last one year. This stands at R $ 888, 3.1% lower than the 2020 R $ 917 average, IBGE reported.
It is one of 14 states where the average wage of people living in the same house does not reach the value of the national minimum wage (R $ 1,212). Acres, you earn less than a third.
Five months before the presidential election, the country is poorer and more unequal than the fall of the 2018 election season.
The picture of poverty is in Pix, a government-built real-time payment system that is already used by 115 million people and covers eight out of ten financial transactions per day. According to the central bank, the average price of pix has fallen by about 10% to R $ 471 in the last six months.
The situation described by voters is as bad as an election of FSB Institute for BTG Bank between last Friday and Sunday.
In it, six out of ten say they believe life will be more expensive. Four of them are worried about not being able to maintain their current standard of living. They predicted a rise in personal debt and delays in paying bills.
The country is facing a crisis, if the difficulties in overcoming it are obvious, the judges have a huge majority (62%). And four out of ten directly blame the Jair Bolsonaro government for the plight of their pockets.
The re-election candidate, however, kept the crisis away from his public agenda. Pretends it’s not her, and spends time trying to change things. Yesterday, for example, he spent the day immersed in a new chapter in his personal battle with the judiciary – a few months ago he stood against the ghost of communism, buried for more than three decades.
He got representatives from the American company Meta to push for a change in the technology of the WhatsApp application before the election. It obviously failed. Then, he got a representative of the state agency responsible for monitoring the digital information market.
Later, he held a rally inside the Palacio du Planalto, which was broadcast by the public channel TV Brazil as “civil law”. In his speech, he again annoyed members of the Federal Supreme Court and the Superior Electoral Court. He spoke in support of the US Alliance, but said that maintaining some independence was important for the United States.
Balsonaro is a candidate running from relevant issues with voters, such as the rising cost of living, the impact of energy and food inflation that cost more than 60% of the budget of the poorest households.
In 2018, it promises a bottle of cooking gas at R $ 35. It is 328% more expensive. So far, it is unknown at this time what he will do after leaving the post.
Balsonaro’s problem is that voters tend to vote with their pockets – for health or epidemics, calm or inflationary storms.