The left champion obtains 50.9 % of the votes at the end of a day of voting full of tensions.
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It is a long wait, worried and silent, which ends in a cry of joy. The night fell, and it’s good for the polling stations for three hours to closed in Brazil. From Rio to Sao Paulo via the Nordeste and the Amazon, the supporters of the left, dressed in red, assemble in bars and public places, eyes riveted on television screens, broadcasting the count live results. All this is long, trying. When suddenly, the verdict falls. And Brazil capsizes in joy.
The former president and candidate of the left Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva won this Sunday, October 30, the second round of the Brazilian presidential election against the outgoing far right, Jair Bolsonaro. With 50.9 % of the votes, the leader of the Workers’ Party (PT) only obtained a short victory over his opponent, who totaled 49.1 % of the votes. Enough, however, to make it indisputable.
For hours, the Lulists refused to believe it. From 6:45 p.m., their champion goes out. But, in Place Cinelandia, in the center of Rio, the faces remain closed. “Tension is part of emotion!” Pleaning a young man of Japanese origin, covered with “Lula” stickers. Each small percentage grappled on Jair Bolsonaro is greeted by a thunderous of anxious applause and songs “Olé, Olé Olé Ola, Lula, Lula!”.
“The nightmare ends”
It will take 20 hours and the official announcement of the results so that joy broke out in the night. In the sky slam breeding fireworks. Unknowns are crying and sank with all their might. “It is the happiest day in the recent history of Brazil!”, Leonardo, 30 -year -old, came to party on avenue Paulista de Sao Paulo. A few meters away, Francili, a hearing hairdresser, exclaims: “It is love that won, you understand? Love!”
The left is moved because she was afraid. His victory was obtained from a hair and snatched at the end of an electric day, which almost saw the entire electoral process derail. “We are shared between the relief of seeing this nightmare ends and frightening, because we almost experienced a coup!” Sums Lucas, 24, a student in cross political science on Cinelandia square.
The day started in a very tense atmosphere. In the streets, Brazilians on the left, dressed in red, cross their compatriots and far -right opponents, dressed in green and gold. Sometimes the meeting degenerates. “Thief! Big ass! Very soon, your president will be in prison!”, Howls, near Copacabana beach, in Rio, a Lulist in the direction of a man with the Seleçao jersey. Dumbfounded, passers -by pretend that nothing had happened …
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