A YouTuber heckled Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in Brasilia on Thursday after which things got a bit physical, showed a viral video.
According to the video from Brazilian news station Globo, Bolsonaro was taking selfies with his supporters near the Planalto Palace. It was then that the President was questioned by Wilker Leao, reported CNN. He is an army corporal, who films his confrontations with the right-wing leader's supporters and posts them to YouTube. According to El Pais, Leao has 13,000 subscribers on YouTube and 125,000 followers on TikTok.
In the new footage, the YouTuber could be heard asking Bolsonaro about his alliance with a group of right-wing and center parties called Centrao. It holds a large number of seats in Congress. Leao was seen being pushed by an apparent security officer. But he refused to leave. He started to insult the President by calling him a "punk" and a "coward." Leao said that he went there "every day, Bolsonaro, and let's see if you have the guts to get out and talk to me."
The political leader could be seen exiting his car saying that he wanted to talk to Leao. He grabbed the YouTuber's collar, and said, "Come here, come here to talk to me." Then he reached for Leao's phone. The two could be seen speaking more calmly after the scuffle. Bolsonaro told him that he could talk to him "all you want, you can talk all you want. There's no problem. Why this aggressiveness?" Leao replied saying that because when he talked to him calmly, when he went there, "I was forbidden to go in there again to talk calmly with you, Sir."
This comes after Bolsonaro kicked off his campaign on Tuesday for Brazil's presidential election in October, reported BBC. His leftist challenger, former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, also launched his Presidential campaign on Tuesday ahead of the election.
According to a nationwide poll from Datafolha Institute that was released by Folha de S. Paulo newspaper on Thursday night, Silva remained the first choice of 47% of Brazilian voters. The gap is closing as Bolsonaro is up by three percentage points since the last poll that took place in late July.
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