Footballer Neymar has endorsed Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in his bid for re-election.
The Brazilian sports activities star, 30, posted a TikTok video of himself dancing and miming alongside to the right-wing politician’s marketing campaign jingle.
He then went on to induce his 8.4 million followers to vote for the incumbent president.
Bolsonaro is presently trailing his rival, former left-wing president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in opinion polls forward of the primary spherical vote on Sunday.
Earlier within the week the president visited a charitable institute in Sao Paulo owned by the Paris Saint-Germain ahead.
On that event, Neymar appeared in a separate video greeting Bolsonaro however stopped in need of outright endorsing him, although he did thank him for his “illustrious visit”.
Bolsonaro was fast to capitalise on the endorsement of the world’s most costly participant, reposting the clip to his Twitter account in a bid to win over undecided voters within the famously soccer mad nation.
Neymar is just not the one footballer to endorse Bolsanaro, with Tottenham Hotspur’s Lucas Moura additionally throwing his help behind him earlier this month telling YouTube channel Cara a Tapa: “I don’t see a perfect presidential candidate but I can’t deny that Bolosonaro is the closest to what I believe.”
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Earlier this week, Neymar helped Brazil’s nationwide group thump each Ghana and Tunisia in pleasant video games operating as much as the Qatar World Cup which kicks off in November.
Bolsonaro’s rival Lula has additionally courted celeb help to spice up his bid for the presidency receiving help from a variety of Brazilian artists in addition to worldwide stars akin to Mark Ruffalo, Roger Waters and Danny Glover.
The president is presently trailing his challenger, who lead Brazil for 2 phrases between 2003 and 2019, by 12 factors.
Source: information.sky.com”