Brazilians won a narrow victory over Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a bitter presidential election, giving the leftist former president a chance to reject the far-right policies of current President Jair Bolsonaro.
Da Silva won 50. 9% of the vote and Bolsonaro 49. 1% according to the country’s electoral authority. However, hours after the effects and congratulations from world leaders were published, Bolsonaro had yet to publicly acknowledge or react in some way.
Bolsonaro’s crusade had made repeated, unproven accusations of imaginable electoral manipulation before the vote, raising fears that, if he lost, he would not settle for defeat and would back down to question the results.
For da Silva, the high-stakes election was an astonishing comeback. His imprisonment for corruption left him out of the 2018 election won by Bolsonaro, who used the presidency to promote conservative social values while delivering inflammatory speeches and testing democratic institutions.
“Today, the winner is the Brazilian people,” da Silva said in a speech Sunday night at a hotel in downtown Sao Paulo. ideologies for democracy to emerge victorious. “
Da Silva promises to govern beyond his party. He says he will incorporate centrists and even some right-wingers, and repair the kind of prosperity the country enjoyed when he last served as president between 2003 and 2010. However, it faces headwinds in a politically polarized society.
Bolsonaro’s 4 years in power have been marked by proclaimed conservatism and the defense of classical Christian values. He claimed that the return to force of his rival would introduce communism, the legalization of drugs, abortion, and the persecution of churches, things that did not happen in M’s early years. 8 years of validity Silva.
It was the country’s closest election since its return to democracy in 1985, and the first time a sitting president has not been re-elected. Just over two million votes separate the two candidates; The last closest contest, in 2014, was by a margin of about 3. 5 million votes.
Among the world leaders who congratulated US President Joe Biden on Sunday night, who excelled in one of the country’s “free, fair and credible elections”. The European Union also praised the electoral control authority for its power and transparency throughout the campaign.
Bolsonaro had led the first part of the count and, as soon as da Silva passed him, cars on the streets of downtown Sao Paulo began honking. People in the streets of Rio de Janeiro’s Ipanema community can be heard shouting, “It’s turned!”
Bolsonaro’s administration has been widely criticized for his handling of the covid-19 pandemic and the worst deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in 15 years. But he has built a committed base by presenting himself as a hedge that opposes left-wing policies that he claims they infringe. in individual freedoms while generating economic confusion and ethical rot. He tried to bolster in an election year with heavy government spending.
“We don’t face an opponent, a candidate. We are facing the device of the Brazilian state placed at their service so that we cannot win the elections,” Mr. da Silva told the crowd in Sao Paulo.
Mr. da Silva launched an extensive social coverage program during his tenure as president that helped attract tens of millions of others to the middle class. The guy universally known as Lula left the workplace with an approval score of over 80 percent, prompting him to. . . The president of the United States, Barack Obama, to call him “the greatest popular politician on Earth”.
But he is also remembered for his administration’s involvement in vast corruption through extensive investigations.
Mr. da Silva was jailed for 580 days on charges of corruption and money laundering. His convictions were later overturned by Brazil’s supreme court, which ruled that the sentence he presided over had been biased and colluded with prosecutors. This allowed Mr. da Silva to run for president for the sixth time.
da Silva pledged to increase spending on the poor, restore relations with foreign governments and take ambitious steps to illegally log the Amazon rainforest.
We will combat any illicit activity,” Mr. da Silva said in his speech. “At the same time, we will promote the sustainable progress of communities in the Amazon. “
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