Who woke up this Monday without having followed the night of the Brazilian elections and looked at the front page of the Newspaper, one of the largest newspapers in the country, would run the risk of thinking that President Jair Bolsonaro had managed to secure his re-election. After all, the cover is divided into photographs of supporters of the two candidates who will go to the second round, Bolsonaro and Lula da Silva; in the first case, in a festive atmosphere; in the second, in an atmosphere of suspense.
This is not surprising: despite the fact that Lula obtained nearly six million more votes in this first round, the highlights in the Brazilian and international press go to the result. “amazing” Bolsonaro, who far exceeded the expectations generated by the polls.
For this very reason, in this subsequent edition, the headline chosen by Folha emphasizes that “Bolnarismo shows strength” at the polls, anticipating that the second round will not necessarily be a walk in the park for Lula, and explains that Bolsonaro comes out of the first round “strengthened” and “reaches this stage driven by the recent improvement in the economy.”
Lula da Silva thinks that victory is “only a matter of time”. Will it be that simple?
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Source: Observadora
