Brazil: Lula's Late Surge
A coin-flip election in Brazil, with little separating the country's left-wing President, Lula, and his right-wing rival, Flávio Bolsonaro. The results of the run-off vote will become clear in a few hours.
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A coin-flip election in Brazil, with little separating the country's left-wing President, Lula, and his right-wing rival, Flávio Bolsonaro. The results of the run-off vote will become clear in a few hours.
With just under a week to go before the decisive presidential runoff election, polls show left-wing incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his right-wing challenger Flavio Bolsonaro are virtually tied.
At the top of the first round of the presidential elections in Brazil with 47% of the vote against 45% for Lula, Flavio Bolsonaro received support from three former rivals, Augusto Cury, Ronaldo Caiado and Romeu Zema, who together weigh more than 5% of the vote. The second round will take place on 25 October.
Brazil's right-wing presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro secured third-place finisher Augusto Cury's endorsement on Thursday, strengthening his position against incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ahead of the runoff. Cury won nearly three percent in Sunday's first round. A Datafolha poll put Bolsonaro ahead with 52 percent against Lula's 48 percent.
A late right-wing shift, a banking scandal and economic frustration may be behind Bolsonaro's last-minute gains.
As the tenth world power, Brazil is a rare and progressive island in a Latin America widely acquired by the Trompian cause. Bolsonarism seems to be back: four years after Jair's attempted coup d'état, the father, his son Flavio came in the lead in the first round of the presidential election. Is Lula, the phoenix of Brazilian political life and left, going to be elected for a fourth term?
Conservative Senator Flavio Bolsonaro created the surprise on Sunday in the first round of the presidential elections in Brazil, ahead of outgoing left-wing President Lula, whom he will face in the second round on October 25.
Beyond Flavio Bolsonaro, who led the first round of the Brazilian presidential election, other members of his family were elected during the parliamentary elections on Sunday, surfing the right-wing tsunami in these general elections.
Flavio Bolsonaro, the ultraconservative and son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, came out ahead of the first round of the presidential elections in Brazil on Sunday, with 47% of the vote against 45% for outgoing President Lula. In an ultra-polarized country, the senator could benefit from the votes of the small candidates for the second round.
Brazilians began voting on Sunday to choose between left-wing president Lula and his far-right rival Flavio Bolsonaro. The son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, Flavio Bolsonaro, 45 years old, would consolidate, if he took it against Lula, the anchoring and influence of his family in Brazilian political life. Weared.
Voters began to go to the polls on Sunday for the first round of the presidential election in Brazil. Left-wing president Lula said after voting that the choice was between democracy and "barbarism". His conservative rival said he wanted to "free the Brazilian people". The two candidates are in a row in the last polls.
The first round of Brazil’s presidential election on Sunday pits two well-known names in the political ring: Lula vs. Bolsonaro. But it’s not former president Jair Bolsonaro facing off against the incumbent head of state – it’s his eldest son, Flavio Bolsonaro. He’s less charismatic than his father but just as ideologically radical as the family patriarch.
He was still relatively unknown in Brazil just a few months ago. The 45-year-old senator is now neck and neck with incumbent President Lula in the polls for the upcoming presidential election. Flavio Bolsonaro's victory would add Brazil to the long list of Latin American countries that have shifted to the right or far right in recent months.
Still little known at the national level a few months ago, 45-year-old Senator Flavio Bolsonaro is now in collusion with the current President Lula in the polls. Brazil could thus add to the long list of Latin American countries to have turned right to the far right in recent months.
Brazilians go to the polls on October 4. The front-runners are multilateralist incumbent Lula da Silva and former President Jair Bolsonaro's son, Flavio, who wants to bring Brazil closer to the US and away from China.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is up two points, but that's still within the poll's margin of error.
It's not just Flavio campaigning in the shadow of the father at the Bolsonaro. The eldest son, who is currently at the elbow-to-neck with Lula in the presidential race, can count on his brothers, senatorial and legislative candidates in southern Brazil. Officialized by the Liberal Party, Carlos is running for a term in the Senate for the first time. The Benjamin Renan is running for the National Assembly. In this South faithful to their father, their only name is enough to win.