Brazil votes with the question of a Lula victory in the first round

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  • The left-wing candidate arrives as a wide favorite in the polls and with the possibility of avoiding the second round

  • Bolsonaro has again put the electoral system under suspicion and said that he will get 60% of the votes

“This is my most important choice“, said Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva when voting in the outskirts of São Paulo from where he built his political legend, and waiting for a result that, if the polls known on Saturday are not wrong, could give him the first turn win of the Brazilian presidential elections. “We don’t want no more hate“, assured the candidate of the Workers’ Party (PT), alluding to an electoral campaign marked by an unprecedented confrontation. His rival, Jair Bolsonaropublicly called him “ex-victim” and did not spare any type of disqualification.

Lula voted in a school in San Bernardo do Campo and, while doing so, he spoke as the winner of the contest: “the most fanatical Bolsonarista will have to fit in with the majority of society“, he said about the most active sector of the extreme right, which represents 15% of society. Asked by journalists about the mode of coexistence with a force that has spread a cloak of suspicion over the electoral process, the former trade unionist trusts that “it will be easy to restore democracy and peace in this country.” He acknowledged that “there will be some fans that they will never want to adapt.” He considered, however, that the majority of Brazilians want “peace, tranquility, harmony, work, produce and live well.” Lula did not overlook the path that led him to compete for the presidency again. sense repeated having been “victim of a lie” that caused his imprisonment for 585 days. “Four years later I am here voting with the recognition of my total freedom and with the possibility of being president again”.

As expected, and in the best style of his political model, donald trump, whose support he received from social networks, Bolsonaro repeated his battle horse of the last two years: the retired captain mistrusts the electoral system that allowed him to reach Congress first and, in 2018, the Government. “Nails on clean electionsthere is no problem, may the best win,” he said before appearing at a school in the west of Rio de Janeiro to cast his vote. “The expectation is victory today. I was well received in practically all states & rdquor ;. Bolsonaro assured that in Joinville, a municipality in the state of Santa Catarina, one of the most prone to the extreme right, he was cheered by a crowd “never seen before.” However, the press has not given account of what had happened there, a symptom, for the retired captain, that the polls that place him at a disadvantage do not coincide with reality. “What counts is Datapovo”, he said, finally, in reference to the Datafolha consulting firm that has predicted his defeat this Sunday. And he again predicted that you will get 60% of the adhesions.

Alexandre de Moraes, the president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) expressed his confidence in “safe and calm” elections. The fear of incidents that prevent many citizens from going to vote was in the air a few hours before the election day began. Moraes remarked: “Today’s big winner will be the election.” It was an elegant response to Bolsonaro’s continuous disqualifications.

unprecedented situation

This Sunday’s elections bring a novelty in Brazil: never before has a candidate for re-election run with such a disadvantage in the first round. “There is another historical noveltywhich is not at all inspiring: under the Magna Carta of 1988, no head of state had dared to sponsor attacks against independent powers and the electoral system itself,” he recalled Folha of San Pablo in his publishing house. The TSE, he adds, “did not give in to the offensive that came from the Planalto Palace. It imposed the rules of the game, punished the coup plotters and preserved the constitutional balance”.

disinformation war

The fake news They have been a constant throughout the Bolsonaro era as an instrument of defamation, but in the last stretch of the electoral campaign they have acquired greater dimensions. Moraes was forced to order the portal the antagonist that will eliminate this Sunday a information according to which the leader of the criminal organization First Command of the Capital (PCC), Marcos Camacho, Marcola, would have declared the vote in favor of Lula. The news had been shared by Bolsonarotheir children and some followers on social networks.

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Beyond the dispute for the presidency, the eyes of analysts will be on what happens in a Congress that in these four years he treated the retired captain with great docility. Parliamentary authorities stopped dozens of requests for impeachment at the most serious moment of the pandemic that killed more than 686,000 people. Expectations of a profound overhaul of the national legislature seem unfounded despite Lula’s eventual victory. The Chamber of Deputies has 513 seats, but 448 of its members, mostly center-right, have an advantage in the fight to cling to their positions.

large influx

The polls will remain open until 8:00 p.m. in the voting of the Brazilian presidential elections in Lisbon due to the large influx of voters, which means three additional hours. The day in Lisbon has passed normally except for the incident involving an individual who wanted to vote twice for Jair Bolsonaro. His vote and that of 59 other people was annulled after what is considered an electoral crime in Brazil. However, as it occurred in Portuguese territory, he has not been arrested. The owners of the annulled votes have the right to vote again.



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