Brazil votes in contentious Presidential election, Lula leads over Jair Bolsonaro
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Brazil votes in contentious Presidential election, Lula leads over Jair Bolsonaro

By Smith

After a long and contentious campaign, Brazilians voted for a new president on Sunday. According to polls, incumbent Jair Bolsonaro trailed Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva by more than ten percent.

Violence has occasionally plagued the campaign, including killing three Workers’ Party members and one Bolsonaro supporter, both left-leaning.

According to polls, Lula is leading, with Bolsonaro following him. Leftist Ciro Gomes and centrist Simone Tebet, currently in third and fourth place, only have about 10 per cent of the vote each.

Many Brazilians vote for the candidate they detest the most. Lula, who served as president from 2003 to 2010 and departed office with a job approval rating of over 80%, has a rejection rate of roughly 40 per cent.

Conservative voters view him as unsuited for the presidency due to his involvement in the Lava Jato corruption scandal. The former labor organizer spent nearly two years in prison for corruption before the Supreme Court overturned his convictions.

Brazil military chiefs quit as Bolsonaro seeks their support

​Military shakeup

The leaders of all three branches of Brazil’s armed forces jointly resigned Tuesday following President Jair Bolsonaro’s replacement of the defense minister, causing widespread apprehension of a military shakeup to serve the president’s political interests.

Bolsonaro is also despised and has a rejection rate of more than 50 per cent. Many Brazilians have taken offence at his occasionally authoritarian tone and misogynistic words.

His government has also been embroiled in several disputes, particularly over how it handled the coronavirus outbreak that claimed over 700,000 Brazilian lives.

In addition, by declining to state whether he would accept the election results unconditionally or not, the president has alarmed voters.

FAQs:

  1. Who are the top contenders in the Brazilian presidential election?
    Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Jair BolsonaroCiro GomesSimone Tebet
  2. What will happen if there is no majority?
    The election will go to a runoff at the end of October if no candidate wins more than 50 per cent of the valid votes, eliminating clean and spoilt votes

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