The former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the second round of the presidential elections in Brazil this Sunday with 50.90% compared to 49.10% obtained by the current governor, Jair Bolsonaro, with 99% of polls counted. The excitement of the ballot was maintained until the last moment in what are already the closest elections in the history of the country.
The leader of the Workers’ Party (PT), who already ruled between 2003 and 2010, he will again occupy the Presidency of an extremely divided Brazil starting from January 1, 2023 and for the following 4 years. The vote was tighter than the polls scheduled before the elections, a reflection of the high polarization that Brazil is experiencing and which also led to episodes of political violence during the electoral campaign.
As happened in the first round, the major demographic societies were unable to determine the strength of Bolsonarism. Bolsonaro started counting ahead, but with 67.76% counted the former progressive president continued to leada trend that continued to the end, albeit always with a very small margin.
The former mechanical turner was also the winner of the first round, held on 2 October, when he obtained 48.4% of the votes, against 43.2% obtained by Bolsonaro. Lula, 77, will once again lead the largest economy in Latin America. When you go up the ramp of the Planalto palace, you will become the oldest president to take power.
During the campaign he promised to “rebuild” Brazil Bolsonaro, put an end to hunger, which today affects some 33 million Brazilians, and “put the poor on the budgets” of the state, combining social, fiscal and environmental responsibility. He also anticipated that he would only be in power for one term, which is four years in Brazil.
Lula’s victory was unthinkable a few years ago for the multiple corruption trials he had to face, but in 2021 the Supreme Court overturned the sentences that put him in prison for 580 daysthus recovering their political rights.
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In this Sunday’s elections, Lula reached three new milestones that “never before” had occurred in the country’s electoral history. He is the first candidate to win three presidential elections, he is the first to defeat a head of state running for re-election and, in addition, he has won a record number of votes.
In Brazil’s entire republican history, since 1889, no one has ever prevailed in three elections, as Lula did, adding this Sunday’s victory to those of 2002 and 2006. Brazil introduced presidential re-election in 1997 and since then four rulers opted for a second consecutive term: Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Lula, Dilma Rousseff and Jair Bolsonaro. The first three were successful. But Lula has watered down the latter’s plans. Furthermore, this Sunday Lula received 60.1 million votes, a figure never before recorded in the elections.
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