The leader of the left is five points ahead of the outgoing president.
Rio de Janeiro
The next four weeks in Brazil promise to be under high tension and full of uncertainty between the leader of the left, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the populist president, Jair Bolsonaro, who will face each other in the second round of the presidential election. on October 30 in a duel at loggerheads. Whoever wins, Bolsonarism has already won in Latin America’s largest country, analysts say.
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The momentum is now in the camp of Bolsonaro who created the surprise on Sunday by following Lula, contradicting all the polls which predicted a large lead for the candidate of the Workers’ Party (PT), even his victory in the first round. According to the almost final figures of the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE), Lula, 76, obtained 48.4% of the votes cast against 43.2% for the 67-year-old president, five small points ahead.
“Bolsonaro has shown much greater strength than the polls indicated, both in the elections for…
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