Brazil will vote on Sunday for the presidential elections with the possibility that Lula da Silva will be elected in the first round, but with the expectation of knowing if the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, will recognize the vote. The latest polls give Lula da Silva 50% of the voting intentions, a figure that already guarantees victory in the first round, while Jair Bolsonaro’s figures are around 36%.
The debate on Thursday night, on the Globo network, must not have had much influence on the conquest of new votes by the two main candidates, according to several analysts quoted in the Brazilian press, since it ended up becoming a ‘field of dirty battle’ where attacks, mutual accusations of corruption and requests to defend honor were the focus.
Even so, if the polls are to be believed, Lula will not have to ‘steal’ more votes from the so-called third political path, personified by Ciro Gomes (with 6% of the intentions) and by Simone Tebet (5%). , to celebrate Sunday. Campaign sentiment also appears to be in line with the polls.
The campaign of former president Lula da Silva has already announced that he will vote at the Firmino Correia de Araújo State School, in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, and that he will accompany the vote count at the Novotel Jaraguá, in the city of São Paulo.
In addition, his party, Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), has already announced the reservation for the festivities on Avenida Paulista. On the other hand, it remains to be seen that on election day when the Brazilian president follows the elections, it is only known that he will vote in Rio de Janeiro.
The question of whether or not Jair Bolsonaro will accept the results of Sunday’s elections remains an unknown, and Thursday’s debate served to accentuate those doubts. The candidate Soraya Thronicke questioned Bolsonaro about whether he will respect the results of the elections and if he intends to carry out a coup d’état and was left unanswered by the Brazilian president, who has repeatedly questioned the electronic voting system that Brazil adopted almost three years ago. decades. and that she elected him several times to the Chamber of Deputies and more recently to the Presidency of the Republic.
Also on Thursday, in one of his usual ‘lives’ on social networks, Bolsonaro called the president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), the body in charge of organizing the elections, Alexandre de Moraes, “scoundrel” and “scoundrel”. .
The Brazilian president also accused Moraes of having political ties to Geraldo Alckmin, former head of state Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s vice-presidential candidate. “Alexandre, you have a whole past in the Alckmin government and that’s why you want a hostage president. You abuse power with baseness,” Bolsonaro said. Moraes was secretary of Public Security of São Paulo while Alckmin was governor of this Brazilian state.
The day before, in another live broadcast on social networks, he again raised his voice against the electronic voting system. “Despite the monitoring of the Armed Forces”, which participate in the electoral process, “we could not zero out the possibility of fraud”, said Bolsonaro.
In addition, one of the phrases that marked the campaign, pronounced on September 18, the Brazilian head of state stated that if he did not obtain 60% of the votes, “something abnormal was happening within the TSE”, once again raising suspicions of that could be setting the stage for ‘an invasion of the Capitol’, as happened in the United States.
11 candidates are running for the Brazilian presidential elections: Jair Bolsonaro, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Ciro Gomes, Simone Tebet, Luís Felipe D’Ávila, Soraya Tronicke, Eymael, Padre Kelmon, Leonardo Pericles, Sofia Manzano and Vera Lúcia.
If none of the candidates exceeds 50% on Sunday, the two most voted, which must be Lula da Silva and Jair Bolsonaro, will meet again in a second round on October 30.
Source: Observadora
