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Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of the Leftist Workers’ Party defeated incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in a close election for Brazil’s next president.
With 98. 8% of the vote at the circular moment — Lula had 50. 8% and Bolsonaro 49. 2% — the electoral authority said his victory was a mathematical certainty.
Lula da Silva, the country’s former president from 2003 to 2010, vowed to repair the country’s most filthy rich past, facing headwinds in a polarized society.
It’s a stunning return to the force for Lula, 77, whose 2018 jailing over a corruption scandal left him out of that year’s election, paving the way for S. Bolsonaro and four years of far-right politics.
His victory marks the first time since Brazil returned to democracy in 1985 that the incumbent president has been re-elected.
World leaders, U. S. President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron, congratulated Mr. Lula da Silva on his victory.
His inauguration is scheduled for January 1.
Lula beats Bolsonaro in presidential elections
Lula a united and divided country
World leaders congratulate Lula
Lula’s inauguration scheduled for January 1
Election regulator denies illegal blockades
06:15 Sravasti Dasgupta
During Brazil’s last general election in 2018, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in a criminal cell, serving a 12-year sentence for corruption in connection with the “Car Wash” scandal that shook the foundations of Brazilian politics, threatened to end his career and paved the way for the arguable triumph of far-right Jair Bolsonaro in an unlikely victory.
On Sunday, he defeated Bolsonaro in a tight election contest that fell by the wayside.
David Harding writes about Brazil’s new president:
From criminal to president, Brazil’s Lula can make a surprising political comeback
05:30 Sravasti Dasgupta
The newly elected president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, his victory to the Brazilian people.
In a tweet containing a photo of crowds, Lula said: “The explanation of why for my victory the determination of one and both one and both one of you. That they believed in freedom and the option of recovering the country for the Brazilian people. “
05:00 Sravasti Dasgupta
Brazil’s newly elected president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, vowed to unite the divided in a speech after defeating incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro yesterday.
“Today, the winner is the Brazilian people,” he said in his victory speech.
“This is not a victory for me or for the Workers’ Party, or for the parties that supported me in the campaign. It is the victory of a democratic movement that was formed above political parties, private interests and ideologies so that democracy is victorious. .
04:30 Sravasti Dasgupta
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s former leftist leader, emerged victorious in the country’s capital election by defeating far-right President Jair Bolsonaro in one of foreign policy’s most astonishing comebacks.
His supporters began gathering in the streets of Sao Paulo, where presidential campaigns were based, with loud cheers, explosions of firecrackers and car horns about two hours after polls closed at 17:00 local time [2000 GMT], when reports began to appear. That your boy takes a decisive lead in the popular vote in a country that spans 4 time zones. Schedules.
Kim Sengupta from Sao Paulo:
Lula defeats Bolsonaro and returns surprisingly as president of Brazil
03:32 , Sravasti Dasgupta
U. S. President Joe Biden congratulated Luis Inácio Lula da Silva.
On Twitter, Biden praised Brazil’s “free, fair and credible elections” and said he hoped to run with the new president.
Sunday 30 October 2022 23:36 , Joe Middleton
French President Emmanuel Macron congratulated Luis Inacio Lula da Silva on his victory in Brazil’s presidential election, in a message on Twitter that the two leaders would “renew the bonds of friendship between their countries. “
Sunday 30 October 2022 23:03 , Joe Middleton
Former leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won Brazil’s hard-fought election on Sunday, denying far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro a mandate.
It marks a stunning political comeback for Lula, who was jailed in 2018 for 19 months for corruption convictions the Supreme Court overturned last year, paving the way for him to run for a third presidential term.
Lula defeats Bolsonaro in Brazil’s presidential election
Sunday 30 October 2022 22:29 , Joe Middleton
Brazilian pollster Datafolha predicted Sunday that former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will win the country’s presidential election on Sunday, in the ongoing countdown to a runoff opposite incumbent Jair Bolsonaro.
Sunday 30 October 2022 21:58 , Joe Middleton
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took the lead in counting existing votes for Sunday’s presidential election, ahead of incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro.
Lula won 50. 01% of the vote to Bolsonaro’s 49. 99%, with 67. 76% of voting machines counted, according to the date on the Supreme Electoral Tribunal’s website.
Sunday 30 October 2022 21:31 , Joe Middleton
With 50. 9% of the vote in the Brazilian elections, the candidates are very close to Bolsonaro, 49. 7% to Lula.
Sunday 30 October 2022 20:47 , Joe Middleton
Jair Bolsonaro took the lead in the first vote count in Sunday’s presidential election, ahead of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, whose Workers’ Party regularly becomes more potent in regions that are slow to publish results.
With 5. 6% of the voting machines counted, Bolsonaro won 53. 2% of the valid votes, compared to Lula’s 46. 8%, the Superior Electoral Tribunal reported on its website.
Sunday 30 October 2022 20:08 , Joe Middleton
Voting is already closed at the time of the presidential election between President Jair Bolsonaro and his political enemy, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Sunday 30 October 2022 19:25 , Joe Middleton
The Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE), which is running Brazil’s elections, has downplayed reports that the Federal Highway Police (FRP) has carried out illegal blockades of buses that dress voters in the impoverished northeast, where Lula is strongest.
Critics allege the PRF blatantly pro-Bolsonaro and officials tried to obstruct voting in Lula’s strongholds.
But Alexandre de Moraes, a Supreme Court judge who also heads the TSE, said no one prevented voting and that all police operations on the roads had ceased and would be investigated.
“The only challenge to the electorate that was delayed,” Moraes told a news conference.
The PRF did not respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Sunday 30 October 2022 18:56 , Joe Middleton
Millions of Brazilians are casting their ballots in the highest election in the country’s recent history amid wonderful uncertainty about the final results and a deep fear about what will happen next.
The most recent opinion polls gave Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the former leftist leader widely known as Lula, a 4-8 lead over far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.
This should, in theory, point to a timid victory for Lula after a bitter electoral race full of accusations and recriminations. Polls, however, played a role in erroneous predictions that the 77-year-old would win in the first circular with more than 50% of the electorate. His team officials were cautious before claiming victory in the presidential runoff.
Kim Sengupta from Sao Paulo.
‘The Ultimate Choice of Our Lives’: Millions Go to the Polls in Brazil
Sunday 30 October 2022 18:20 , Joe Middleton
Tom Phillips, the Guardian’s Latin America correspondent, reports on allegations in Brazil that federal highway police are making it harder for others to vote.
Sunday 30 October 2022 17:27 , Joe Middleton
Crucial elections in Brazil and the United States will provide a first check for Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, and his commitment to the platform’s disinformation policies.
Voters in both countries have already faced a torrent of misleading statements about candidates, issues and voting. That torrent may turn into a deluge if Musk helps fulfill his promises to overturn Twitter regulations just as millions of voters prepare to vote.
“This is the peak critical moment for this work, just before an election,” said Alejandra Caraballo, a professor at Harvard Law School’s Cyber Law Clinic who monitors online reaction to Musk’s purchase. “We’re going to see one with the elections in Brazil this Sunday, when we see how bad things are. “
The upcoming U. S. elections U. S. and Brazil are a bet on Musk’s Twitter
Sunday 30 October 2022 16:50 , Joe Middleton
Brazilians went to the polls today to cast their votes in a presidential election featuring two political titans and bitter rivals who may usher in 4 years of far-right politics or send a leftist back to lead the country.
On one side, there’s incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, a former army captain who has built a base of stalwarts as a cultural warrior with a conservative ideology.
It has used the budget in what is seen as an effort to provoke last-minute votes. His opponent, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has sought to stoke nostalgia for his years of presiding over an economic boom and social inclusion.
Here’s what you want to know about the circular moment of Brazil’s presidential election:
Elections in Brazil: What you want to know about the high-stakes race
Sunday 30 October 2022 16:19 , Joe Middleton
Sunday 30 October 2022 15:40 , Joe Middleton
Brazil is going through the most important presidential elections in its history. On October 30, it will be known who will be the president of the most populous country in South America and the fourth largest democracy in the world, writes James N. Putting Green.
Voters will also have the luck or failure of a new far-right populist global motion that features current President Jair Bolsonaro, its national leader, and former US President Donald Trump, its best-known representative in the world.
The political phenomenon embodied through Bolsonaro and Trump has one characteristic: using democratic procedure and then weakening it so that it becomes unrecognizable and unable to engage the authoritarian excesses of its presidents.
Opinion: Jair Bolsonaro is Brazil’s Donald Trump
Sunday 30 October 2022 15:16 , Joe Middleton
Sunday, 30 October 2022 14:40 , Sam Rkaina
Lula voted in Bernardo do Campo, Sao Paulo, where he arrived with his running mate Geraldo Alckmin and several other members of his team.
A Lula victory would mark an unexpected comeback for the leftist leader, who was jailed in 2018 for 19 months for corruption convictions that the Supreme Court overturned last year, paving the way for him to run for a third presidential term.
Lula promised to return to the economic expansion and state-led social policies that helped lift millions out of poverty during the commodity boom when he first ruled Brazil.
It also pledges to combat the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, now at its point in 15 years, and make Brazil a leader in global climate negotiations.
A momentary term for Bolsonaro would keep Brazil on the path of free-market reforms and looser environmental protections, while consolidating a coalition of right-wing parties and hardcore agricultural interests, which funded his campaign.
Sunday 30 October 2022 14:20 , Sam Rkaina
With Bolsonaro stickers on her chest, Rio de Janeiro resident Ana Maria Vieira said she would surely vote for the president and would never agree to decide on Lula.
“I saw what Lula and his gang of criminals have done to this country,” he said as he arrived to vote in Rio’s Copacabana neighborhood, adding that he thought Bolsonaro’s handling of the economy had been “fantastic. “
At the same polling station, Antonia Cordeiro, 49, said she had voted for Lula.
She said Bolsonaro had worried about the considerations of the wealthy, at least until the final days of the campaign, when he implemented anti-poverty measures to win votes.
“We continue with Bolsonaro,” he said. “It didn’t work. “
Sunday 30 October 2022 13:30 , Sam Rkaina
Thousands of Brazilians living in Ireland voted in the election of their country’s president.
A long queue formed early Sunday at Dublin’s Croke Park, where polling stations opened at 8 a. m.
Some 12,000 Brazilians are registered in Ireland.
Some 8,000 more people voted in Ireland in the first round of the race between Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Jair Bolsonaro.
Some in the queue wore red M. da Silva, known as Lula, while others expressed Mr. Bolsonaro.
Brazil’s ambassador to Ireland, Marcel Biato, said they expected a turnout on Sunday.
“They will have to be Brazilian citizens and be registered to vote in Ireland,” he told the PA news agency.
As electronic voting is used, effects are expected approximately 3 hours after voting.
Biato said about 156 million people have the right to vote in Brazil and 500,000 abroad.
“Everything is told electronically; We have a very safe formula that has been used for about 35 years,” he said.
“It’s a very secure system, which means other people can be very kind and know that their vote counts. “
Geneci da Cruz iu Fhatharta came from Galway to vote.
“We have to make this effort of many hours to come and vote for Lula,” he said.
Alberto dos Santos, who lives in Dublin, comes out to vote for M. Bolsonaro.
He said he had the idea that there were more Lula supporters in Dublin, more M. Bolsonaro supporters in Brazil.
Sunday 30 October 2022 13:00 , Sam Rkaina
Polling stations in the capital, Brasilia, were already packed in the morning, with retired civil servant Luiz Carlos Gomes saying he would vote for da Silva.
“He is more productive for the poor, especially in the countryside,” said Gomes, 65, from Maranhao state in the impoverished northeastern region. “We were starving before him. “
More than 120 million Brazilians are expected to vote, and since voting is done electronically, the final result will be obtained a few hours after the polls close in the scheduled afternoon.
Most opinion polls gave da Silva, universally known as Lula, an edge, but political analysts agreed that the race had become increasingly close in recent weeks.
Sunday 30 October 2022 12:13 , Sam Rkaina
Bolsonaro the first to vote at an army compound in Rio de Janeiro.
He wore the green and yellow colors of the Brazilian flag that they sport at his rallies.
“I expect our victory, for Brazil,” he told reporters afterward. “God willing, Brazil will emerge victorious today. “
Sunday 30 October 2022 11:13 , Sam Rkaina
Brazilians began voting this morning in a polarized presidential election.
It’s past 8 a. m. in the country and members of the public have been seen lining up to voice their opinion. It is expected to be a close competition between President Jair Bolsonaro and his political enemy, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Sunday 30 October 2022 10:20 , Sam Rkaina
The president’s virtual mobilization has manifested itself in recent days as his crusade has brought new, and unproven, allegations of imaginable electoral manipulation.
That has reignited fears that Bolsonaro will simply question the effects of the election if he loses, as does Donald Trump, whom he admires.
For months he claimed that the country’s electronic voting machines were prone to fraud, never presenting evidence, even after the election management authority set him a deadline to do so.
More recently, the accusations are similar to airtime for political ads. Bolsonaro’s crusade claimed that radio stations had aired more than 150,000 election ads and warned that this could have resulted from a deliberately malicious effort to damage his candidacy.
The electoral control authority refused to open an investigation, citing lack of evidence. “We don’t know if this result will be contested or not, and to what extent,” said Carlos Melo, a political science professor at Sao Paulo’s Insper University. .
“It’s a very complicated circular time and a very tense Sunday, and tensions can continue beyond today. “
Sunday 30 October 2022 09:50 , Sam Rkaina
An extensive investigation has the involvement of Silva’s Workers’ Party in major corruption scandals that have ensnared politicians and senior officials.
Da Silva himself was jailed for 19 months on corruption and money laundering charges. The Supreme Court overturned their convictions in 2019, arguing that the sentence was biased and colluding with prosecutors.
That didn’t stop Bolsonaro from reminding the electorate of the condemnations. Da Silva’s future election would be like letting a thief return to the scene of the crime, the president warned.
Sunday 30 October 2022 09:20 , Sam Rkaina
Applicants have put forward few proposals for the country’s long-term beyond the claim that they will seek a broad timeline of social coverage for the poor, despite a very limited long-term fiscal area.
They have opposed others and introduced smear campaigns online, with many more attacks coming from Bolsonaro’s camp.
His 4 years of life were marked by proclaimed conservatism and the defense of classical Christian values.
He claimed without any evidence that da Silva’s return to force would introduce communism, drug legalization, abortion and persecution of churches.
Da Silva on Bolsonaro’s widely criticized handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and said the president had failed to take care of the neediest members of society.
And he portrayed Bolsonaro as an opponent of the Amazon rainforest, given that he has disgraced the environmental government and presided over a surge in deforestation.
In videos of the crusade, da Silva also took aim at Bolsonaro for being a politician who allocates billions to lawmakers for favorite projects in exchange for political support.
It’s called the “secret budget,” because of a lack of transparency about the final uses of the money, and da Silva said he had exhausted the budget for primary social spending.
Sunday 30 October 2022 08:59 , Sam Rkaina
Candidates in Brazil who finish first in the first circular tend to win the circular for now.
But political scientist Rodrigo Prando said the crusade was for a Bolsonaro victory simply not to be ruled out.
The president won the backing of the governors of the 3 most populous states and allied politicians won major victories in congressional races.
“Politically, Bolsonaro is more powerful than we imagine,” Prando, a professor at Sao Paulo’s Mackenzie Presbyterian University. “Mathematically, Lula is ahead. “
Twelve gubernatorial races will also be decided, adding Brazil’s most populous state, Sao Paulo, Amazonas state and the northeastern state of Bahia.
More than 150 million Brazilians are eligible to vote, but about 20% of Brazilians abstained in the first round.
The Supreme Court issued a ruling allowing state capitals to offer free public transportation on election day, and da Silva and Bolsonaro focused their efforts on participation.
Sunday 30 October 2022 08:17 , Sam Rkaina
The vote will determine whether the world’s fourth-largest democracy maintains the same far-right political course or sends a leftist back to the more sensible workplace and, in the latter case, whether Bolsonaro will settle for defeat.
More than 120 million Brazilians are expected to vote, but since voting is done electronically, the final result will be obtained a few hours after polls close in the late afternoon.
Most opinion polls gave da Silva, universally known as Lula, an edge, but political analysts agreed that the race had become increasingly close in recent weeks.
For months, da Silva appeared headed for a simple victory while stoking nostalgia for his 2003-2010 presidency, when Brazil’s economy was booming and welfare helped tens of millions of people enroll in the middle class.
But in the Oct. 2 first-round election, da Silva finished first among 11 candidates with 48% of the vote, while Bolsonaro momented with 43%, which seems opinion polls particularly underestimate the president’s popularity.
Many Bolsonaro Brazilians defend conservative social values, and he has reinforced them through extensive public spending.