On October 30, the election will decide who will take the lead Brazil. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) published at 2.15 am (7.15 am Italian time) the practically final results of the presidential elections, which show the certainty of a confrontation between the two former presidents. By examining the ballots of 99.99% of the seats, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Pt, left) received 57,254,672 votes or 48.43% Jair Bolsonaro (Pl, right) received 51,070,672, which is 43.20%. The third place in the choice of voters went to Simon Tebet (Mdb, centre-right) with 4,915,217 votes (4.16%) and the Fourth behind Ciro Gomes (PDT, left) with 3,599,157 votes (3.04%). So Brazil remains in balance.
Conservatives triumph in Congress – But Brazilian voters also voted to renew Congress with 513 members of the House of Representatives and 81 members of the Senate, as well as governors and legislatures in 27 territories. And the new congress national of Brazil is the most conservative in the history of the country’s democratic period since the Liberal Party out Bolsonaro at least 99 MPs elected and thus brought home the best result in 24 years. Success also for the two main representatives of the pool “Lava Jato” (car wash), la Local clean handsCandidates for the National Congress: In addition to the former judge Sergio Moroelected senator, at the same time prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol won a seat in the House of Representatives. Both surfaced in Paranà, the state where the anti-corruption investigation began in 2014, bringing dozens of people entrepreneur, businessmen and politicians. A sign that the population has not forgotten the work of this team of judges, he emphasized Moro. Moro, candidate for Union of Brazil (right), received 1.9 million votes, or 33%, while his wife Rosángela she was elected a federal deputy State of Sao Paulo (south-east). It was Moro to condemn the former left-wing president in the first instance in 2017 lulawhich in 2021 the judgments against him were declared void by the Federal Court of Justice supreme court. The victory of Dallagnolassociated with the Conservative Party Podemosthe most elected Paranà MP with 325,000 votes, surpassing Lula PT President Gleisi Hoffman with 261,000 votes in second place.
The duel between Lula and Bolsonaro – Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva76-year-old icon of the South American left, big election favourite, did not confirm the predictions of the victory the night before, which brought him approval of up to 51% in the first round. “The fight goes on until the final victory‘ Lula said, after which the ballot was nothing more than an ‘extension’. When he returned to San Paolo from San Bernardo do Campo, his voting stronghold, where he had cast his vote that morning, the left-wing leader was waiting for the answer at the Novotel Jaraguà with his wife Janja, the deputy designated for his future government. Geraldo Alkminand the former president Dilma Rousseff. At the end of the evening, he reached the Avenue Paulista, reserved for the turning point crowd, and instead went to the theater to hug with some tens of thousands of supporters. “We have defeated the lies” by the opinion research institute “Datafolha”. Now “I will work to change the people’s vote‘ promised Bolsonaro, the target of a hack on the website today. He, too, has returned from his campaign trip from Rio de Janeiro to the Palacio da Alvorada, his official residence in Brasilia, where the fence around the building has even been extended to accommodate his many supporters.
According to analysts, the undecided who abstention rate, and those who believed they welcomed the election of the so-called “useful vote” (ie those who would have liked to see the election completed on the first ballot). Although voting is mandatory for the 156 million Brazilians called to the polls, the abstention rate has increased from 20.3% in 2018 to 20.94 today. And Lula herself would have been hurt the most by this increase in absenteeism. The first round was also followed by the international observers of theOrganization of American States, at the invitation of the TSE. The group – made up of 55 experts from 17 countries – was deployed in 15 of the 26 states and in the district of Brazil and certified that everything had been done correctly, as the operations manager told the army, in an initiative by Bolsonaro, who, like his opponent Lula now ponders his next steps to victory.
The risk is there Bolsonaro Adding fuel to the fire, setting the streets ablaze and accelerating his relentless attacks to discredit the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) and its President, Judge Alexandre de Moraes, the heart of democratic processes. And in this transition period, the outgoing President could start interim measures with immediate effect (with publication in the Official Journal) to give new impetus to the liberalization of arms sales and thus increase the risk of political violence. An extreme polarization that took place in the 46 days of the poison campaign, from August 16 to the opening of the electronic polling stations on October 2, hHe has already counted three deaths and several episodes of intimidation.
in the Brazil Voting is compulsory for educated citizens – 10% of Brazilians are illiterate – who are of legal age and of full legal capacity, but optional between the ages of 16 and 18 and after 70 years. In the first round of 2018, the turnout was 80%. Who doesn’t go to urns risk one fine. The elections in Brazil they always take place on the first Sunday of Octoberand for presidential candidateand the gubernatorial election, the vote required if no candidate gets 50%, is scheduled for the final Sunday, October 30 this year.