Haddad Lecture Interrupted at Unicamp Over Right-Wing Protest

Overview

• Organizers and campus security say that on Thursday at Unicamp’s Teatro de Arena at least two protesters identified with MBL and the Missão party interrupted Fernando Haddad’s aula magna and were removed after exchanges of punches.
• Video circulated online shows Matheus Pereira (known as Matheus Campinas) questioning Haddad and later being pushed and tripped outside the lecture area, while Pereira and other Missão members say they were assaulted by students and staff.
• Unicamp’s student union (DCE) and event security say right-wing activists provoked the disturbance and that there were no reported injuries, and the Polícia Militar says it was called but did not need to intervene because organizers controlled the scene.
• During the lecture Haddad criticized a constitutional amendment that cut the budget share for Education from 30% to 25% and repeated his 2022 proposal to tie state university transfers to net tax revenue as a way to stabilize funding.
• Coverage shows competing narratives and promises of more footage from Missão, leaving accountability questions unresolved and keeping campus protest tactics and university financing at the center of the political debate.