Breathtaking rivalry between Lula and Bolsonaro; Brazil’s election has been extended to the second round.
With more than 83% of the votes counted in the controversial Brazilian elections, it is likely that none of the presidential candidates will succeed in winning 50% of the votes and this election will be extended to the second round.
With more than 83 percent of the votes counted in Brazil’s presidential election, leftist former president Lula da Silva is slightly ahead of hardline current president Jair Bolsonaro with 44.8 percent with 46.5 percent.
Brazilian political observers say that with these results, the Brazilian presidential election will go to the second round and Lula and Bolsonaro will have to compete with each other in the second round.
Brazil’s presidential election began on Sunday morning across the country. Jair Bolsonaro, the right-wing president (in Brazil), had questioned the validity of Sunday’s election, and he was lagging behind former left-wing president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in polls; Someone who was imprisoned in the middle of a corruption scandal.
According to the New York Times report, “Brazil has gone from one crisis to another over the past decade: environmental destruction, economic stagnation, the impeachment of a president, the imprisonment of two presidents, and an epidemic (corona) that is more severe than anywhere else in the world.” It killed people outside the United States.”
According to this American newspaper, “historians in Brazil say this election is widely regarded as the most important vote of the country’s people in recent decades, partly because the health of one of the world’s largest democracies may be at stake.”
The report continues: “The current president, Jair Bolsonaro, is a far-right populist whose first term has been notable for his turmoil and constant attacks on the electoral system. He has sparked outrage at home and concern abroad for policies that have accelerated deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, for welcoming unproven anti-Covid-19 vaccines, and for his scathing attacks on political rivals, judges, journalists and health professionals. ».
