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| Brazilian dark horse says God wants him to be president |
| 2018-09-21 |
| [JOURNALDUCAMEROUN] One of the media darlings of Brazil’s eccentric presidential race is a buff, bible-thumping reserve fireman who barely registers in the polls and insists God wants him to win. Introducing Cabo Daciolo, who calls himself a messenger from heaven, says he wants to expel Satan from Congress and, with the campaign for the October 7 vote in the home stretch, has chosen to go on a religious retreat in the mountains for three weeks. Up there on high, the Rio native says he is fasting and praying for the recovery of the frontrunner in the race, of all people: rightwinger Jair Bolsonaro, who was stabbed two weeks ago while campaigning. The two men are close, personally and ideologically. Bolsonaro finds himself out front with the most popular presidential hopeful, former president and leftist icon Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in jail for corruption and disqualified from running. Yes, it has been that kind of race. Daciolo rarely appears in public, relying instead on social media. On Facebook he has 264,000 followers. He likes to begin talks to his disciples with a rousing shout of "Glory be to God." "I am not a politician. I am an envoy from God," Daciolo, a handsome 42-year-old with an athletic build, said once on Instagram. "Everyone says, ’Daciolo, you are crazy to jump into this campaign,'" he told the magazine Epoca. "With people, my chances are less than 0.001 percent. But with God they are 100 percent." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Oh, oh |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-09-21 02:00 |
| #2 I dunno. Expelling Satan from Congress would be a worthy goal. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2018-09-21 01:51 |
| #1 "I am not a politician. I am an envoy from God," Is he on a mission from God? I gots to know! I somehow feel a little better about our political outlook, after comparing it to these assholes. |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-09-21 00:31 |