Brazil election

Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro will face off against Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the leftwing former leader, in a runoff vote at the end of this month, ...

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

“It’s a very disappointing night for the left.” “The campaign begins tomorrow.” “There was a feeling among the left that Lula had a chance to win in the first round ... “We all thought Lula would win easily.” “I’m disappointed,” said Kharine Gil, a 23-year-old university student. I’m confident that he will win.” A Federal Police investigation accused the far-right ideologue of making it difficult for environmental crimes to be investigated. It is time to go out onto the streets... “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. “But the results show we do not have the time to rest now. Bolsonaro, who significantly out-performed pollsters’s predictions and will be buoyed by the result, received 43.3%. Salles, meanwhile, was the Environment Minister who presided over a sharp rise in Amazonian deforestation.

Neither presidential candidate got more than 50% of the overall vote, meaning they will face off on 30 October.

This is a drama which has been years in the making. Not surprisingly, that tension has filtered down into the streets. But with Mr Bolsonaro counting on the agricultural sector and agribusiness for votes and support, it is Lula who is the preferred choice of climate activists. During the nights before the vote, neighbours here in Rio could be heard shouting "Lula is a thief" and "Out with Bolsonaro" at each other. In the last TV debate before the vote, President Bolsonaro called Lula a thief, in reference to the corruption charges that put him in jail for 580 days before the conviction was annulled. For Lula - who could not run in the 2018 election because he was in prison after being convicted on corruption charges - this spells a remarkable comeback.

With 98.8% of he votes tallied on Sunday's election, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had 48.1% support and incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro had ...

He turned to politics after being forced out of the military for openly pushing to raise servicemen's pay. Asked if he would respect results, he gave a thumbs up and walked away. "I didn't like the scandals in his first administration, never voted for the Workers' Party again. Da Silva's own convictions for corruption and money laundering led to 19 months imprisonment, sidelining him from the 2018 presidential race that polls indicated he had been leading against Bolsonaro. With 98.8% of the votes tallied on Sunday's election, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had 48.1% support and incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro had 43.5% support. Bolsonaro grew up in a lower-middle-class family before joining the army. While voting earlier Sunday, Marley Melo, a 53-year-old trader in capital Brasilia, sported the yellow of the Brazilian flag, which Bolsonaro and his supporters have coopted for demonstrations. Israel's former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed gratitude for stronger bilateral relations and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban also praised him. Analysts fear he has laid the groundwork to reject results. The last Datafolha survey published Saturday found a 50% to 36% advantage for da Silva among those who intended to vote. A slow economic recovery has yet to reach the poor, with 33 million Brazilians going hungry despite higher welfare payments. He said as recently as Sept.

Brazilians cast their votes on Sunday in the first round of their country's most polarized election in decades, with leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ...

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the left-wing former president, won more votes than right-wing incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro, but not enough to win outright ...

In the hours before the vote, he posted on his Twitter feed a video of former President Donald Trump urging people to vote for him. All this provided an opening for da Silva, who is now 76 and a survivor of throat cancer. Then, in a stunning turnaround, he was released on a technicality in 2019 and launched his campaign for the presidency — the sixth time he has run for the office. However, after leaving office he became ensnared in a wide-ranging corruption scandal that landed him in prison for a year and a half. Sunday's voting was largely peaceful after a contentious, sometimes violent campaign in which Brazil's democracy seemed to hang in the balance. In fact, da Silva trailed for much of the night before finally inching ahead and winning with about 47.9% of the vote, with about 97% of votes counted.

Brazil's presidential election appears to be heading for a run-off, as far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's strong initial showing...

"Four years ago I couldn't vote because I was the victim of a lie ... The leftist, who was president from 2003 to 2010, was jailed during the last election. Maria Lourdes de Noronha, 63, said only fraud could prevent a Bolsonaro victory, adding that "we will not accept it" if he loses. Initial results do not always capture the full picture in Brazil's sprawling national elections. He has also repeatedly cast unfounded doubts on the country's electronic voting system, prompting fears he may refuse to accept defeat and spark an institutional crisis. A second-round vote could add to fierce polarisation and simmering political violence in Latin America's biggest country.

The second round of Brazil's presidential election campaign kicked off Monday after far-right President Jair Bolsonaro outperformed polling and robbed ...

Capital Economics said in a note that Lula was still the favorite to be elected. If he pulls off a comeback, it would break with a wave of victories for leftists across the region in recent years, including Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and Chile. It also led bankers and analysts to [unexpectedly strong showing](/world/americas/brazil-votes-tense-lula-bolsonaro-presidential-contest-2022-10-02/) by Bolsonaro on Sunday dashed hopes for a quick resolution to the deeply polarized election in the world's fourth-largest democracy. It also revitalized the president's campaign, setting the stage for a highly competitive and tense run-off on Oct. Local markets cheered the result.

Leftist challenger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva falls short, setting up another bruising face-off with right-wing Jair Bolsonaro.

[Bolsonaro has made baseless attacks on the integrity of Brazil’s electronic voting system and suggested he may not concede if he loses. The race has proven tighter than most surveys suggested, revitalising Mr Bolsonaro’s campaign after he insisted that polls could not be trusted. As neither got a majority of support, the race goes to a runoff vote on Oct 30.

Closer than expected result in first round of voting means Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Jair Bolsonaro face runoff.

Comparing the prospect of a Bolsonaro defeat to Trump’s in the US, he said that both men would have lost “very narrowly, and mostly because of a freak cause (the pandemic) … The fact that the result now looks likely to be narrower than expected even if Lula wins “significantly increases the credibility of [the] “stolen elections” narrative among Bolsonaro supporters and thus the possibility of post-electoral violence,” Mudde wrote. Many in Brazil are fearful that Bolsonaro may stoke an anti-democratic mood among his supporters – though, perhaps scenting the possibility of a revival, he was noticeably quieter on his baseless fraud claims last night than he has recently been. A lot of people on the left have been frightened – one Lula supporter said to me on Saturday that it’s the first time in my life I’ve been scared to put a sticker on my car.” “People in the centre and on the centre right viewed this as an emergency election. [brutally murdered by a Bolsonaro supporter last month](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/15/jair-bolsonaro-brazil-political-violence-election), one of a string of violent attacks by supporters of a candidate who has demanded leftists “be eradicated from public life”. That is of global importance given the Amazon’s role as a store for carbon dioxide. [remembered by many in the country](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/05/brazilians-still-hold-great-affection-for-lula-despite-corruption-conviction) as an era of economic growth and declining inequality. On Sunday, he told reporters: “We want no more hatred, no more quarrelling, we want a country that lives in peace.” And progressives around the world were watching for an emphatic repudiation of Bolsonaro’s presidency that would signal that the forces of extremism were in retreat. “The mood among his opponents had been one of cautious optimism,” said Tom Phillips. At the very least, they hoped for a commanding margin and a sense of momentum going into a runoff between the two.

The result came as a surprise, since pre-election polls had given da Silva a commanding lead.

“I didn't like the scandals in his first administration, never voted for the Workers' Party again. He turned to politics after being forced out of the military for openly pushing to raise servicemen's pay. Da Silva's own convictions for corruption and money laundering led to 19 months imprisonment, sidelining him from the 2018 presidential race that polls indicated he had been leading against Bolsonaro. While voting earlier Sunday, Marley Melo, a 53-year-old trader in Brasilia, sported the yellow of the Brazilian flag, which Bolsonaro and his supporters have coopted for demonstrations. Bolsonaro grew up in a lower-middle-class family before joining the army. “But certain changes can be for the worse.” “I wouldn't believe,: she said. Israel's former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed gratitude for stronger bilateral relations and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban also praised him. The last Datafolha survey published Saturday had found a 50% to 36% advantage for da Silva. A slow economic recovery has yet to reach the poor, with 33 million Brazilians going hungry despite higher welfare payments. Nine other candidates were also competing, but their support pales to that for Bolsonaro and da Silva, who is commonly known as Lula. He said as recently as Sept.

Lula and Bolsonaro go head-to-head after a closer than expected first-round result.

There's everything to play for in this presidential race - and everything to lose if you're on the wrong side. In the run-up to this vote, Bolsonaro repeatedly said that the polls were a lie - and to many it looked like he was just a bad loser. "There's going to be beautiful blood spilled in this city," Alessandro Ferreira Soares, a parachutist, told me if Lula takes the presidency. "We are going to win the elections again, it's just a question of time." In the past few weeks, there had been a concerted effort by his supporters to try and encourage wavering voters to choose Lula, to end the Bolsonaro presidency promptly. The polls released a day before the elections had predicted a 14 percentage point gap between Lula and Bolsonaro.

Brazil's presidential election is headed for a run-off vote, electoral authorities said on Sunday (2 October), after President Jair Bolsonaro's surprising ...

His conviction was later overturned by the Supreme Court, allowing him to run again for president this year, along with nine other candidates from an array of smaller parties. His popularity has suffered since the coronavirus pandemic, which he called a “little flu” before COVID-19 killed 686,000 Brazilians. Bolsonaro had questioned polls that showed him losing to Lula in the first round, saying they did not capture enthusiasm he saw on the campaign trail. Bolsonaro will arrive with a lot of strength for re-election.” As neither got a majority of support, the race will go to a second-round vote on 30 October. Several opinion surveys had shown the leftist Lula, who was president from 2003 to 2010, leading the far-right Bolsonaro by 10-15 percentage points ahead of Sunday’s vote.

Brazil's high-stakes presidential vote on Sunday a first-round winner with the necessary majority for an outright win, setting up a tense two-man race later ...

One expert says many surveys overrepresented poor voters, and far-right supporters may just not respond. Jair Bolsonaro speaks to supporters after learning ...

Bolsonaro made an unexpectedly strong showing on Sunday in the deeply polarized election in the world's fourth-largest democracy. Before the vote, the right- ...