This Sunday Brazil celebrated the second round of the presidential elections in which a leftist government returned with Luiz Inácio ‘Lula’ da Silva. During the day, the president of the Electoral Court, Alexandre de Moraes, issued a resolution to demand that the Federal Police clarify whether the operations of this body have any impact on the data systems of the Integrated Center for National Command and Control
Brazil held, this Sunday, October 30, the second round of the presidential elections. With the official results of more than 98% of the tally sheets, the Brazilian Electoral Court declared Luiz Inácio ‘Lula’ da Silva as the winner, with 50.84% of the votes in favor of him.
Lula once again became the new President of the South American nation, while he prevailed by a small gap over Jair Bolsonaro (49.3%), who became the first president of that country not to be re-elected.
After 67%, Lula climbed the hill to place himself ahead with 50.04% above Bolsonaro, who registered 49.96%. Then, when accounting for 72.28% of the votes, the Workers’ Party candidate was still up with 50.10%.
At 8:00 am local time, the polls opened for tense elections in which more than 156 million Brazilians are eligible to vote.
Both candidates for the Presidency of Brazil voted during the first hours of this Sunday.
Bolsonaro, current Head of State, was the first to vote. At 8:00 am, he went to his polling station in the Villa Militar in Rio de Janeiro. He pointed out that he was confident that he would position himself as the winner of the day and invited his followers to vote using the colors of the national flag: green and yellow.
?#BrazilElections The presidential candidates have already voted
? Jair Bolsonaro voted in Rio de Janeiro and then must return to Brasilia to follow the vote count
? Lula da Silva voted in the city of São Bernardo do Campo, where he began his political activities#AM1080 ? pic.twitter.com/cMFDe5XEfJ
– Monumental AM 1080 (@AM_1080) October 30, 2022
«The expectation is for victory, we only have good news in recent days. God willing, we will be victorious this afternoon. Or better yet, Brazil is going to be victorious today in the afternoon,” said the president, according to France.24.
At 9:15 in the morning, Lula went to the polls. The former president, and candidate for the Presidency of Brazil, for the Workers’ Party, cast his vote at his polling station in Sao Paulo, where hundreds of supporters were waiting for him.
LAST MINUTE | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva exercised his right to vote in the second round of the presidential elections in Brazil (Video) https://t.co/ZFiUt2uDs1 pic.twitter.com/MsOrMjA8Qk
— AlbertoRodNews (@AlbertoRodNews) October 30, 2022
He assured that he is “confident in the victory of democracy.” For Lula, “today is possibly the most important October 30 of my life and I think it is a very important day for the Brazilian people, because today the people are defining the model of Brazil they want, the model of life they want ”.
The polls will close at 17:00 pm However, the authorities will allow all voters who are in line at the time the polls close to vote.
In addition to the President and Vice President, the citizens of 12 Brazilian states elected their governor this Sunday. Among them, Sao Paulo, the most populated region and engine of the economy of the South American giant.
#Results? Jerônimo Rodrigues (PT) is the new governor of Bahia. No 2nd shift, or candidate from the coalition Pela Bahia, Pelo Brasil, at 7:33 p.m. this Sunday (10/30), had received 52.54% of two valid votes.
— TSE (@TSEjusbr) October 30, 2022
In the first round of the elections, on October 2, his opponent Luiz Inácio ‘Lula’ da Silva took first place with 48.4%, compared to 43.2% for Bolsonaro.
However, experts indicate that the country is “very polarized”, so there is still no certainty on which side the balance will finally tip.
On the other hand, the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) of Brazil ordered the Federal Police to clarify whether their operations, carried out this Sunday, can interfere in the presidential elections.
Alexandre de Moraes, issued a resolution that requires the Federal Police to clarify whether the operations carried out by this body have any impact on the data systems of the Integrated Center for National Command and Control.
Earlier, the Workers’ Party (PT) called for the arrest of the director of the PFC for obstructing the elections with checkpoints (alcabalas).
New times for Brazil
After knowing the results, the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, wrote on his Twitter account: “Long live Lula.”
Long live Lula.
– Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) October 30, 2022
On Saturday, October 29, Petro made a wish, on the same social network, for Brazil to make the light of Latin America shine.
“There are those who say that fascism does not exist. It is in each of us. It stops inside and outside. If we want more days for humanity, fascism must be stopped », he asserted.
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