Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Jair Bolsonaro will have to face each other in a second round on October 30, notes Folha de S.Paulo. The former left-wing president arrived in Brazil on Sunday, October 2 at the top of the first round of the presidential election in Brazil, but the far-right outgoing president resisted better than expected.
With 99.7% of the voting machines counted, the national electoral authority (TSE) said on its website, Lula was credited with 48.4% of the vote against 43.3% for Bolsonaro – a score higher than this. whose head of state was credited the day before in the polls, notes the Brazilian newspaper.
Lula, who had taken the lead in the opinion polls, was given as “The favors” of the poll, where more than 156 million voters were called to vote, retraces The day.
To win in the first round, the candidates would have had to collect “50% valid votes plus one vote”Explain The globe. This second round will have something special, since “it will be the first time since the return of democracy [en 1985] that it will be contested by two competitors who have already held the position”Lula from 2003 to 2010 and Jair Bolsonaro since 2019, notes the daily.
The stakes in the second round are high, notes the New York Timessince it will be a question of designating the leader of the largest democracy in Latin America.
“No respite”
The two men “are likely to claim the result [de dimanche] like a victory”analyze the BBC. For Lula – who spent 580 days in prison before his corruption conviction was overturned, which caused him to miss the 2018 election – “this is a remarkable comeback”. Et “Bolsonaro will relish the fact that opinion polls that saw him far behind Lula were off the mark, as he predicted.”
With this result in the form of “cliffhanger”voters will not have “no respite” over the next four weeks, warns the chain, because these “two great rivals” will have to fight to recover the votes of the six other eliminated candidates.
In view of “the political polarization that has taken hold in the country in recent years”the temperature of the countryside should still “going up for the next four weeks”anticipates on its side The globe.
“Radicalization – on both sides – has been the hallmark of this presidential election, with violence, aggression and death”remember The day.