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the washington times reported on the 16th that on the evening of the 15th, a political farce broke out in the mayoral election in sao paulo, brazil: in a live tv debate that night, a candidate publicly provoked his opponent and successfully angered him, and the latter picked up a chair and swung it directly at him. us media said that this scene was enough to make people stunned even in brazil, where political violence is frequent.

according to reports, a total of six candidates in sao paulo participated in the televised debate to compete for the mayoral position of brazil's largest city. during the debate, pablo masar, the candidate of the brazilian workers' renewal party (prtb), repeatedly targeted the journalist-turned-candidate josé luis datena, first exposing his involvement in a sexual harassment scandal in 2019, and then verbally provoked him. masar mentioned the incident that occurred at another debate, saying: "you (datena) went on the debate stage and wanted to slap me... but in the end you backed off, you are not manly enough." datena could no longer suppress his anger and swung the chair at masar's back, causing chaos on the live broadcast.

the new york times reported that after the incident, masar, who was well versed in the "traffic code", posted several videos on social media, dramatically showing himself being "rushed to emergency" and "wearing an oxygen mask and breathing hard", using this farce to hype himself up. masar's campaign team said that he was beaten by datena and "had a broken rib". however, another video disclosed by local media showed that masar was still "swearing" at datena after being beaten.