Lula and Jair Bolsonaro count their allies and are preparing for a tight result, October 30.
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This is the beginning of a row battle, led by hand-to-body. While the presidential campaign resumed after a tighter first round than expected between the left candidate, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (48.4 %), and the outgoing far -right president, Jair Bolsonaro (43.2 %) , the big maneuvers began. In a Brazil cut in half, with a second round on October 30 in the goal, everyone is now summoned to choose their camp.
The most anticipated rallying took place on Wednesday October 5. Senator Simone Tebet, who arrived third in the first round with 4.2 % of the vote, formalized her support for Lula. “It is not possible to stay in the omission of neutrality,” she said. The two personalities appreciate and respect each other. M me tebet “will not return to Mato Grosso do Sul”, said Lula, revealing this moderate centrist a leading ministry in the event of a victory.
Elected from this large soy producer of the country’s center-west, close to the agrobusiness sector, the senator and her unequivocal support prove to be particularly precious for the left leader. “Simone TEBET can help Lula reclaim this conservative rural interior electorate, still very hostile to the workers’ party [PT]”, estimates the political scientist Isabela Kalil, anthropologist specialist in the Brazilian right.
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Tuesday, Ciro Gomes, fourth man in the presidential election, with disappointing score (3 %), resolved to rally – of a bad grace – the candidacy of the former metal -pole trade unionist. “This is the only solution among two unsatisfactory options,” admitted in a short video the leader of the Labor Democratic Party, whose management was unanimously chosen to support Lula, against whom Mr. Gomes led months during a acrimonious campaign.
representing more than 7 % of the vote, or 8.4 million voters, by them, M me tebet and Mr. Gomes should, at first glance, ensure an easy victory in Lula , passed to a hair (1.8 million votes) to win in the first round. But the game will not be so easy, as evidenced by the divisions crossing several formations of the great Brazilian chessboard. The Brazilian Democratic Movement of Simone Tebet thus gave no voting instructions to her supporters.
Founded in the 1960s as the only legal opposition to the military dictatorship, this centrist party has become over the years the symbol of an opportunistic and often corrupt establishment. Some of its most eminent members, such as ex-president Michel Temer (2016-2018), Dilma Rousseff, or deputy Sergio Souza, head of the influential agronégoce lobby in the Chamber of Deputies , both announced their support for Jair Bolsonaro.
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