Lula and Bolsonaro have three weeks ahead of them to contest the vote of the 8% of voters who supported centre-right Simone Tebet, Labor member Ciro Gomes and a dozen candidates who did not get more than 1%.
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Brazil celebrated the presidential elections most polarized of the last decade. The ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva got 48.34% of the valid votes, compared to 43.28% of the president Jair Bolsonarowho aspires to be reelected.
Lula and Bolsonaro meet in the second round
The election for the presidency of Brazil It will be determined on October 30, after neither candidate has received more than 50% of the valid votes in this Sunday’s election.
Both candidates have three weeks to contest the vote of 8% of voters who supported centre-right Simone Tebet, Labor member Ciro Gomes and a dozen candidates who did not get more than 1%.
The Hidden Power of Bolsonarism
Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the election, but President Jair Bolsonaro’s hidden power, which the polls failed to detect to their full extent, has forced a now unpredictable runoff election.
The leader of the far-right Brazilian, who aspires to his re-election, achieved a more favorable result than all polls on voting intentions predicted. Lula gained just 5 percentage points more than his main opponent.
However, the polls until yesterday pointed to a difference between the two candidates of about 15 percentage points, as Bolsonaro took no more than 36% of the valid votes in the demographic polls.
Jair Bolsonaro. Photo: EFE
Bolsonaro does not question the polls
After Sunday’s results, Bolsonaro questioned the reliability of opinion polls but kept silent about the legitimacy of the electronic voting system, which he has questioned countless times.
The head of state has raised the specter of fraud against the country’s current electoral system and has even asked Congress to introduce the printed vote, despite the fact that there has been no complaint against the electronic ballot box since its introduction in 1996.
Bolsonarismo flexes muscles
In addition to the good result of the former army reserve captain, bolsonarism showed strength this Sunday after the election of key allies of the president, both for Congress and regional governments.
Some of his candidates won the governors of key states such as Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia and Paraná in the first round, while his former minister Tarcísio Gomes surprised de Freitas by winning his ticket to the second round against Lula’s candidate, Fernando Haddad. in Sao Paulo, the country’s largest electoral college.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Photo: EFE
Highest abstinence since 1998 and comparable to 2018
Election day was also marked by abstinence. The percentage of voters who failed to vote in the first round of the presidential election is the highest since 1998, data from the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) shows.
Of the 156 million Brazilians called to the polls, 32.6 million did not show up, representing a 20.94% abstention, compared to 20.3% registered in 2018, when Bolsonaro was elected.
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Source: EITB
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