Brazil: one week before the elections | Opinion

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From Rio de Janeiro

Next SundayOctober second, 156 million Brazilian voters will have the option to elect a president. According to the total legislation, the candidate who reaches half plus one of the valid votes (except null, blank and abstentions) will win.

If no candidate reaches that mark, there will be a second round on Sunday 30.

Since the redemocratization in 1985, after 21 long years of military dictatorship, this is the most important election. And that because they oppose the democratic forces aligned with former leftist president Lula da Silva (photo) against the far-right and current president, the unbalanced Jair Bolsonaro, and a group that oscillates between limitless opportunism, the most radical right and evangelical sects.

The most lucrative Brazilian company in the worldthe Universal Church of the Kingdom of Godcontinues, undaunted, with the extreme right.

The so-called “centre” parties, who are often accused of selling out, suffer an injustice.

They are not for sale, they are for rent. Since redemocratization, they have been on the side of all governments. They have never won as much as with Bolsonaro, but they will surely be with Lula in the next government.

tension and violence

Another unprecedented feature is the degree of tension and violence recorded, thanks to Bolsonaro’s incitement of his most radical followers.

Two murders of Lula supporters committed by Bolsonarists have already been recordedendless attacks on opponents, journalists and polling company officials who indicate Lula as the favorite.

All this explains the fear of more violence in this last week, and also what will happen if Lula wins in the first round or in the second. Bolsonaro continues to insist that only because of fraud will he lose.

What little is mentioned is another point.

Losing in the first or second round, Bolsonaro will have three or two months in office.

And the big question is:what will he do between now and the first day of 2023, when he will lose the right to put his butt in the presidential chair?

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