Brazil election: ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wins vote but not outright victory

[Celerity]

Acrimonious election will go to a second round after the former president failed to secure a majority over Jair Bolsonaro

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/02/brazil-election-ex-president-luiz-inacio-lula-da-silva-wins-vote-but-not-outright-victory-jair-bolsonaro



Brazil’s acrimonious presidential race will go to a second round after the former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva failed to secure the overall majority he needed to avoid a run-off with the far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro.

With 97.8% of votes counted the leftist veteran had secured 47.99% of the vote, not enough to avoid the 30 October show down with his right-wing rival. Bolsonaro, who significantly out-performed pollster's predictions and will be buoyed by the result, received 43.57%.

Speaking on the eve of the election Lula said he was hopeful of a first round win but would redouble his efforts to reclaim power if a second round was needed. “I feel great hope that this election will be decided tomorrow, but if it isn’t we’ll have to behave like a football team when a match goes to extra time. We’ll rest for 15 minutes and then we’ll get back out onto the pitch to score the goals we didn’t score in normal time,” he told reporters.

The election result was a blow to progressive Brazilians who had been rooting for an emphatic victory over Bolsonaro, a former army captain who has repeatedly attacked the country’s democratic institutions and vandalized Brazil’s international reputation.

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[Tommy Carcetti]

1. So demographically, does more of Brazil lean leftward than rightward?

Obviously that will be the big question.

Hopefully this will be Macron and Le Pen in France, where the supporters of the other candidates in the first round rally around the sane choice in the second round.

[2naSalit]

2. +1