The day was marked by more than 500 interventions by the Federal Traffic Police (PRF, for the acronym in Portuguese) that allegedly hindered voter movement, mainly in the northeast of the country, an area considered close to Lula.
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This Sunday at 5 p.m. (9 p.m. in the Basque Country), polls will be closed in Brazil, which will elect its next head of state in the second round of presidential elections next Sunday.
Current far-right President Jair Bolsonaro faces left-wing candidate and former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, with the latter having a slight advantage according to polls.
The day was dominated by the more than 500 interventions who made it Policeman Federal Traffic of Brazil (PRF, for its acronym in Portuguese) in different parts of the country, interventions by vehicle inspection that provided public transportation for voters.
The president of the TSE, Alexandre de Moraes, expressly prohibited the PRF on Saturday from carrying out any operation related to voter public transport so as not to obstruct the vote.
Moraes has stated that the police checkpoints they didn’t stop voters from exercising their right, but it still got them suspended.
For its part, the Workers’ Party (PT) of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has called for the arrest of the director of the Federal Traffic Police for obstructing the elections.
Likewise, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has expressed concern about the checkpoints.
Two candidates, two Brazilians
About 156.4 million Brazilians They were called to the polls this Sunday to choose between the continuity of the far-right president Jair Bolsonaro and the return to power of former progressive president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Bolsonaro and Lula face each other in a second round of the elections for which the Workers’ Party (PT) leader is the favourite, with a lead of between four and seven percentage points, according to the latest polls. Voting takes place in the country’s 5,570 cities and 181 locations abroad.
after deposit your vote in your polling station, in the military village of Rio de Janeiro early this morning, the current president, Jair Bolsonaro, has said he hopes to “win”. “The expectation is victory, we only have good news in recent days. God willing, we will prevail today. Or rather, Brazil will prevail today,” Bolsonaro assured the press in brief statements.
Bolsonaro, when entering the Electoral College in Rio de Janeiro. Photo: EFE
For his part, the Brazilian presidential candidate Lula da Silva He exercised his right to vote in the city of Sao Bernardo do Campo, on the outskirts of Sao Paulo. “Today is the most important day of my life,” said Lula. “Today people determine the life model they want. People have to save people who are hungry,” he added, according to the newspaper ‘Estadao’.
fierce campaign
Both candidates, who have divided the electorate as had not been seen in Brazil’s recent history, they rushed to the last minute on Saturday to wrap up a fierce campaign that has lasted two and a half months.
Lula da Silva, at the time of the vote. Photo: EFE
Lula, the most voted candidate in the 1st round
In the first roundLula (president between 2003 and 2010), champion of a broad progressive front that center and center right forces have joined, was the most elected candidate with 48.4% of the vote, compared with 43.2% that he was the retired. army captain, who aspires to a new four-year term.
The favoritism of Lula, who got his political rights back last year after spending 580 days in prison corruption processes which were subsequently canceled has remained constant throughout the campaign.
20% abstinence
In recent weeks, Lula and Bolsonaro have focused on convincing the undecided and absent, who achieved 20% in the first round, despite the fact that Voting is compulsory in Brazil..
However, the positions of one and the other are practically fixed. The margin to get new support is minimal and in fact there have been no major swings in voting intentions in the most recent polls.
Lula continues with a big lead in the Northeast Region, the historic granary of the PT, and among the poorest populationrepresenting almost half of the electorate.
Bolsonaro in turn stands out one of the richest and most influential evangelical voterswho has tried to seduce Lula with the unveiling of a letter in which he spoke out against abortion and affirmed that the family is “a sacred thing.”
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