Populist outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro against the ghost Luis Inacio Lula da Silva: in Brazil, the first act of the political duel between two personalities that everything opposes is played this Sunday (the second round is scheduled for October 30, if Lula does not win not from the first round as some observers think possible). Who would have bet on the return as the big favorite of the ballot of a former president convicted and imprisoned for corruption? “Lula is quite simply unavoidable in Brazil, through his political history and his personal trials, the former trade unionist worker triggers emotion, for him or against him, judge Christophe Ventura, researcher at Iris and author of “Geopolitics of Latin America” (Eyrolles). As he is the only one to seem capable of beating Bolsonaro, he was able to build around his Workers’ Party (PT) a coalition going all the way to the center right”.
Brazil: facing Bolsonaro, Lula favorite of a presidential election under high tension
27