With 96.93% of the polls counted, the second round between candidates Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) and Jair Bolsonaro (PL) is confirmed.
Lula is ahead, with 47.85% of the valid votes, having turned the race around when 70% of the votes had been counted. Bolsonaro is in second, with 43.7%. The difference between the first and second place no longer allows the resolution of the dispute in the first round.
Simone Tebet (MDB) appears in third, with 4.22%. Ciro Gomes (PDT) is in fourth, with 3.05%.
Lula (PT)
Born in Garanhuns (PE), Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva moved to the state of São Paulo as a child. During his adolescence, he completed a course as a lathe worker in a unit of the National Service for Industrial Learning (Senai) and, later, started to work as a metallurgist in the city of São Bernardo do Campo, when he also started to get involved with trade union activity. .
In the late 1970s and 1980s, Lula led major strikes by metalworkers in the ABC region of São Paulo. Along with other trade unionists, intellectuals and activists of social movements, he founded the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT).
By the party, he became deputy of the Constituent Assembly that approved the Constitution of 1988 and was defeated in the presidential elections of 1989, 1994 and 1998. He was elected to the highest post in the country in 2002, having been reelected in 2006. He left the Presidency in 2010, being succeeded by his then Chief of Staff, Dilma Rousseff, who won the elections with his support.
In 2017, Lula was sentenced to nine years and six months in prison for corruption and money laundering. In 2018, he was arrested by the then judge Sergio Moro. The convictions were overturned in 2021 by the Federal Supreme Court (STF), which found that the 13th Federal Court in Curitiba did not have the legal competence to judge the charges. The STF also later found that Moro acted without due impartiality in the process.
At 76, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is seeking his third term as president. The candidate for vice on his ticket is Geraldo Alckmin (PSB) who was his opponent in the 2006 dispute. Born in Pindamonhangaba (SP), he is 68 years old, is a doctor and professor. Alckmin was one of the founders of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) and occupied the party’s cadres between 1988 and 2021. He was also a constituent and governed São Paulo on two occasions: from 2001 to 2006 and from 2011 to 2018.
Jair Bolsonaro (PL)
Born in 1955 in the municipality of Glicério (SP) and registered in the São Paulo city of Campinas, Jair Messias Bolsonaro graduated in 1977 from the Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras, in Resende (RJ). He later served in the Army’s field artillery and parachute groups. A retired military officer, having reached the rank of army captain, he is currently the 38th president of Brazil, a position he assumed on January 1, 2019.
Bolsonaro served seven terms as a federal deputy for Rio de Janeiro between 1991 and 2018. Before that, he was also a councilor in the capital of Rio de Janeiro between 1989 and 1991.
Three of her five children have also dabbled in politics. Carlos Bolsonaro is a councilor in the capital of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Bolsonaro is a federal deputy for São Paulo and Flávio Bolsonaro is a senator for Rio de Janeiro.
Throughout his political career, Bolsonaro was a member of nine parties. He went through PDC, PPR, PPB, PTB, PFL, PP and PSC. In 2018, he was elected President of the Republic by the Social Liberal Party (PSL). This year, he ran for re-election by the PL.
The candidate for vice president on the ticket is Walter Braga Netto. Having attained the rank of general in the Army, he is currently a reserve soldier. Born in Belo Horizonte in 1957, Braga Netto headed, from February 2018 to January 2019, the federal intervention in public security in Rio de Janeiro. At the time, he was Military Commander of the East, a position he held until February 2019, when he took over as head of the Army’s General Staff. As a member of the government led by Bolsonaro, he was Chief Minister of the Civil House and is currently Minister of Defense.
