Hunger
Left
Took Brazil off the UN Hunger Map again, in 2025.
Far right
Let hunger come back: 33.1 million people going hungry in 2022.
23 · Left × Far right
Which side are you on?
On one side, what the left has done and stands for. On the other, what the far right has done and stands for. You decide.
5 issues
Basic needs
Food on the table, health care, medicine, housing and gas: the basics of a dignified life.
Health
Left
Relaunched the Mais Médicos doctors program, and child vaccination rose again.
Far right
Mocked vaccines and left Pfizer's offers unanswered during the pandemic.
Medicine
Left
An expanded Farmácia Popular, with free medicine for millions.
Far right
Proposed cutting Farmácia Popular funding by 59% in 2023.
Housing
Left
Minha Casa Minha Vida is back: 1.15 million homes contracted in two years.
Far right
Left more than 80,000 program homes with construction stalled.
Cooking gas
Left
Gás do Povo gives about 15 million families free gas cylinders.
Far right
A gas cylinder reached R$ 125 in 2021.
5 issues
Economy and your pocket
Wages, jobs, taxes, debt and pensions: what is left at the end of the month.
Wages
Left
Minimum wage rising above inflation and no income tax up to R$ 5,000.
Far right
Ended real increases in the minimum wage.
Jobs
Left
Unemployment at the lowest level on record.
Far right
Unemployment reached 14.9%, the highest on record.
Fair taxes
Left
No income tax up to R$ 5,000, paid for by those earning over R$ 600,000 a year.
Far right
Promised to exempt those earning up to 5 minimum wages and did not deliver.
Debt
Left
Desenrola: 15 million people renegotiated R$ 53 billion in debt.
Far right
No national renegotiation program, and record household debt in 2022.
Retirees
Left
Pensioners on one minimum wage get real increases again.
Far right
The 2019 reform raised the minimum retirement age.
5 issues
People and rights
Trans and LGBT+ people, people with disabilities, women, Black people and Indigenous peoples: who gains rights and who loses them.
Trans and LGBT+ people
Left
Created the first national LGBTQIA+ secretariat and defends chosen names.
Far right
Uses trans people as targets of hate, even from the floor of Congress.
People with disabilities
Left
The Brazilian Inclusion Law, disability benefits and the end of the segregated school decree.
Far right
Tried to send children with disabilities to separate schools.
Women
Left
An equal pay law for women and men.
Far right
Drained funding to fight violence against women.
Racial equality
Left
A new affirmative action law and a dedicated ministry.
Far right
Denies racism and called for cutting affirmative action.
Indigenous peoples
Left
A dedicated ministry and an emergency response for the Yanomami.
Far right
Promised “not one centimeter” of Indigenous land; illegal mining spread.
4 issues
Future
Schools, science, culture and the environment: the country we leave to those who come next.
Education
Left
Student savings program, affirmative action and 100 new federal institute campuses.
Far right
Froze 30% of universities' discretionary funds in 2019.
Science
Left
First increase in research grants in ten years: 40% for master's and PhD students.
Far right
Cut science funding and called the space agency's data lies.
Culture
Left
Brought back the Ministry of Culture and the Paulo Gustavo Law in all 27 states.
Far right
Abolished the Ministry of Culture and vetoed the Paulo Gustavo Law.
Environment
Left
Amazon deforestation falling sharply, toward the lowest on record.
Far right
Deforestation topped 13,000 km² in 2021.
4 issues
Democracy and the world
The vote, guns, the press and Brazil’s place in the world.
Democracy
Left
Respects your vote and the ballot box.
Far right
Attacked the voting system and was convicted by the Supreme Court of attempting a coup.
Guns
Left
Gun control decrees, upheld by the Supreme Court.
Far right
Made guns easier to buy: hobbyist arsenals went from 350,000 to over 1 million.
Press and truth
Left
An official campaign and channel against disinformation.
Far right
Bolsonaro was the top aggressor against journalists in 2021.
Brazil in the world
Left
G20 and COP30: a respected Brazil.
Far right
The foreign minister embraced Brazil being an “international pariah”.
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