On the eve of the presidential election on Sunday, the outgoing far -right president was trying to catch up on the left candidate.
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The “shock of the titans” has finally arrived. This will oppose, during the presidential election, Sunday October 2, the two greatest current political figures in Brazil: on the far right, the outgoing head of state, Jair Bolsonaro, and on the left, the former Unionist and President (2003-2011), Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. A duel at the top, as historic as it is perilous, in a polarized and electrified country like never before.
On the eve of the ballot, the polls give the left widely in mind. Lula would obtain 50 % of the votes expressed (excluding whites and zero), against 36 % in Jair Bolsonaro, according to The latest survey of the DataFolha Institute , suggesting the possibility of a victory of the leader of the Workers’ Party (PT) in the first round. The proponents of the third way, the Labor Ciro Gomes and the centrist Simone Tebet, caps up respectively at 6 % and 5 % of voting intention, against 0 % to 1 % for the remaining candidates.
In recent weeks, Jair Bolsonaro will have tried everything to catch up with the most modest. Increase in social minima, energy checks, tax cuts … Nearly 8 billion euros will have been spent in a voice purchase operation never seen at such a level. The president in the campaign also forced the oil giant Petrobras to revise his prices downwards. In mid-September, the average petrol price fell to 4.97 reais (0.94 euros): its lowest level in two years.
campaign marked by violence
In order to reassure moderate voters, Jair Bolsonaro also tried to soften his image. On September 7, a bicentennial day of independence, many expected to see him launching calls to insurrection. It did not happen. The far -right candidate attacked the judges, the polls, the left and the electronic ballot boxes. He encouraged single men to find themselves “a princess” and made the word “dismissable” chant by the crowd of his supporters. But in the big evening, there was not.
A few days later, on the 12th, he was invited to an evangelical podcast. Surprise: Jair Bolsonaro maintains that he will recognize his defeat. “If it is the will of God, I continue. Otherwise, I pass the scarf [to my successor] and I retire. At my age, I have nothing else to do on earth once my Passing in politics finished “, lets go of the outgoing president, who goes so far as to apologize for his outrageous during the COVVI-19 crisis:” I have dismantled, I lost my mind. And I regret it. “Unrecognizable .
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