According to Brazil’s electoral authority, after 99% of the ballots were counted, Flavio Bolsonaro received 47.03% of the vote, while Lula da Silva received 45.16%.
The Guardian пишет, что 45-летний Bolsonaro received 56.1 million votes, and 80-year-old Lula was supported by 53.8 million voters. The publication also notes that in the second round Bolsonaro can count on some of the votes of right-wing candidates Ronaldo Caiado, who received 2.1%, and Renan Santos, who received 2.2%; in total, more than 5 million people voted for them.
In the general elections, where members of the National Congress, governors, and state legislative assembly deputies were elected at the same time, right-wing forces performed better than expected. This day was especially successful for the Bolsonaro family.
Carlos Bolsonaro and Michelle Bolsonaro won seats in the Senate, Jair Renan Bolsonaro was elected to the lower house of Congress, and former infrastructure minister Tarcisio de Freitas was re-elected governor of São Paulo.
Of the 54 senators elected on October 4, 34 were representatives of right-wing or far-right views. In total, the Brazilian Senate has 81 seats, and Bolsonaro supporters called this result key, since senators can remove Supreme Court judges, which sentenced Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years in prison for an attempted coup.
Flavio Bolsonaro said that the election results mean the end of an era for Lula da Silva’s Workers’ Party. Lula, in turn, said that the country had received a lesson in Brazilian democracy and that a new campaign is beginning.
Lula first became president in 2002, then was re-elected in 2006 and 2022. In the 2022 election, he defeated Jair Bolsonaro, who did not recognize the results and tried to overturn them.
One of the key topics of the current campaign was relations between Brazil and Latin America and the United States. Lula accused Donald Trump of trying to sway voters in Bolsonaro’s favor in order to “colonize” Brazil, while Bolsonaro promised to establish closer ties with Washington.
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