With over 90% of the vote counted in Brazil, incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro is barely behind Socialist legal Lula da Silva within the presidential election.
Lula leads with 47% of the vote. Bolsonaro has 44% of the vote. Since neither candidate acquired a majority of the vote their will probably be a runoff on October thirtieth.
Latest polling had Lula with a 50% to 36% lead. There polls are bullsh*t too, identical to ours.
Socialist Lula de Silva was convicted on corruption charges earlier than he introduced his run for president.
President Trump endorsed Bolsonaro, the Trump of the Tropics.
– Obrigado, meu amigo Trump! Graças ao apoio do povo brasileiro e de nossa determinação em lutar pelos interesses do Brasil, hoje somos respeitados no mundo todo e contamos com o apoio de nações livres e prósperas e não mais de ditaduras socialistas, como no passado. pic.twitter.com/p4gcAcSiIU
— Jair M. Bolsonaro 2️⃣2️⃣ (@jairbolsonaro) October 2, 2022
UPDATE – Bolsonaro and Lula will go to a runoff on October thirtieth. Pollsters incorrectly anticipated a transparent victory of over 50% for Lula earlier than the election.
🔴Lula – 47.63%
🔵Bolsonaro – 43.88%95% of votes counted.
— Disclose.television (@disclosetv) October 3, 2022
AP reported:
With 91.6% of the votes counted, former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the leftist Staff’ Occasion has a slight lead within the nation’s presidential election, with 47.3% assist.
Incumbent Jair Bolsonaro is in second, with 44.2% assist.
It seems more and more possible neither of the highest two candidates will obtain greater than 50% of the legitimate votes, which exclude spoiled and clean ballots, which means a second spherical vote will probably be scheduled for Oct. 30.
The extremely polarized election will decide whether or not the nation returns a leftist to the helm of the world’s fourth-largest democracy or retains the far-right chief in workplace for one more 4 years.
