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Manuela d’Ávila is emerging in Le Monde:
Jovial, the leftist candidate for mayor of Porto Alegre, settles into her office and takes off her mask, revealing a broad smile.
With this strange campaign carried out mainly on social networks (Covid-19 obliges), he assures that “we are saving a lot of time! It is very useful. We avoid all unnecessary events! “
At 39, the young woman has reason to be excited: all the polls give her the lead, with 27% of the votes in the first round and victorious in the second, well ahead of her rivals on the right and center.
Communist, feminist, committed to human rights and minorities, Manuela embodies the youth and hopes of the left of the state capital, unlike Jair Bolsonaro and the extreme right in power.
However, “Manu” (his nickname) is far from a newcomer to politics. In the communist world, it would be even another apparatchik: already a candidate (unsuccessful) twice for the mayor of Porto Alegre, Manuela was elected in 2004, at 23 years old, councilor (the youngest in the history of the city), deputy federal (2007-2015) and state (2015-2019). (…)
During the presidential campaign, Manu gained a national aura, but became a target.
The far right is pouring torrents of misogynistic insults online against the young feminist. “The most important thing I learned in this campaign is to remain who I am,” he says.
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