Candidate Jair Bolsonaro leads Lula da Silva in the second round of the Brazilian presidential elections. With 30% counted, the current president of the country prevails over the former president with 51% of the votes, compared to 49% for Lula. Both the historic leader of the Workers’ Party (PT) and the current president have been optimistic until the last moment about their chances of victory in one of the most polarized elections in the country’s history.
Elections to which 56 million Brazilians were called and in which those who want the left to return to power define their positions with former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who aspires to the third presidency, and the desire that the right remain under the guidance of Jair Bolsonaro, who is seeking re-election.
A division that has been reflected in the results of the polls, which have shown a slight advantage – between four and eight points – of Lula over Bolsonaro. Voters went to the polls dressed in the colors of their candidates: crimson red, in the case of the Lulistas; yellow and green, in that of the voters who support the far-right Jair Bolsonaro, whose campaign has taken over the colors of the national soccer team a couple of months before the World Cup in Qatar.
Despite the fact that the day has passed calmly throughout Brazil, there are people who fear some kind of conflict in the event that Bolsonaro loses and does not recognize the result, as was seen in the United States when former President Donald Trump was defeated by Joe Biden, as some of the voters who have gone to the polls have stated.
