With almost 48 % of the vote, the representative of the workers’ party, former head of state from 2003 to 2010, has four points ahead of the outgoing far right president, according to partial results relating to More than 97 % of stripped bulletins.
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The presidential election of Brazil will decide in the second round. At the end of the first round
Voting, Sunday, October 2, the candidate on the left Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, known as “Lula”, finished in the lead in front of the outgoing far right president, Jair Bolsonaro, with 47.93 % of the votes against 43, 62 %, according to partial results from the Electoral Superior Tribunal (TSE) relating to more than 97 % of stripped bulletins
Nearly 5 million votes separate the two men, Lula counting just over 55 million votes in his favor. But neither of the two candidates having reached an absolute majority, they will be decreed in a second round, Sunday October 30.
Some 156 million Brazilians were called upon to vote for this first round to choose their president for the next four years. Centrist Simone Tébet collects third place, far behind, with 4.21 % of the votes. Labor Ciro Gomes follows it at 3.05 %. All other candidates are around or below 0.50 %. The participation rate of this first round has reached 79%.
palpable tension The outgoing Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro, in his polling station in Rio de Janeiro, October 2, 2022. Andre Coelho / Figcapation>
Among the eleven contenders for the supreme function, Lula of the workers’ party (PT) left favorite. Saturday evening, the last DataFolha survey gave the left icon in the lead, with 50 % of the votes, against 36 % for Jair Bolsonaro, and the chances of winning in the first round.
To the headquarters of the workers’ party, -a hotel in Sao Paulo (south -east) -the tension was palpable on Sunday evening, while the results were scratched. At the start of the counting, Jair Bolsonaro, of the Liberal Party, counted more than five points ahead of Lula, but the gap then gradually reduced.
When Lula went ahead after more than three hours of counting, hundreds of people massaged on Place Cinelandia, in the historic center of Rio, exploded with joy, noted a journalist from the France-Presse agency ( AFP).
Lula, who spent five hundred and ninety days in prison for corruption in 2018 and 2019, made a return in force after the cancellation of his convictions in 2021 and tries to win a third term at the head of the country . At 76, he campaigned on the “reconstruction” of a very divided country, promising the eradication of hunger, as well as a struggle in favor of the preservation of the environment.
Fears persisted on the post-science in case of success in the first round of Lula on Sunday. His rival threatened not to recognize the results in the event of defeat, targeting the electoral system, before showing some signs of appeasement as the vote approaches.
