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Brazil votes in most polarized election in decades

by The Associated Press
October 2, 2022
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Brazilians are voting on Sunday in the first round of their country’s most polarized election in decades, with leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva favoured to beat right-wing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro.

Most polls have shown Lula with a solid lead for months, but Bolsonaro signalled he may refuse to accept defeat, stoking fears of institutional crisis or post-election violence.

A message projected on Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer statue ahead of the vote read: “Peace in the Elections.”

Most opinion surveys favour Lula, who was president from 2003 to 2010, by 10 to 15 percentage points. If he wins more than 50 per cent of valid votes, which several pollsters show within reach, that would clinch an outright victory, forgoing a second-round vote.

Oct. 30 run-off possible

A winner could be announced within hours after polling stations close at 5 p.m. Brasilia time (4 p.m. ET).

If no candidate wins more than half of the votes, excluding blank and spoiled ballots, the top two finishers go to an Oct. 30 run-off, prolonging the tense campaign season.

Bolsonaro has threatened to contest the result of the vote, after making baseless allegations of fraud, accusing electoral authorities of plotting against him and suggesting the military should conduct a parallel tally, which they declined to do.

Jair Bolsonaro, centre, who’s seeking re-election as Brazil’s president, gestures at a polling station in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday. (Ricardo Moraes/Reuters)

A decisive victory by Lula on Sunday could reduce the odds of a tumultuous transition. Critics of Bolsonaro say another month of his attacks on the democratic process could spur social unrest like the assault on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former president Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021.

Bolsonaro says he will respect the election result if voting is “clean and transparent,” without defining any criteria.

Brazilians are also voting on Sunday for all 513 members of the lower chamber of Congress, a third of the 81 members of the Senate, and state governors and legislatures.

Though Lula leads the presidential race, the conservative coalition backing Bolsonaro is expected to hold a majority in both chambers of Congress. That could present challenges for the leftist to govern a country with rising hunger, high unemployment and an uneven recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

More generous welfare spending

Lula and Bolsonaro have both promised more generous welfare spending next year, adding to pressure on the federal budget and leading both to look at alternatives to current spending rules.

The newly established autonomy of Brazil’s central bank and Lula’s choice of a centrist former rival as running mate have reassured some investors that he would not trigger a disruptive break in economic policy.

Former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who’s running against Bolsonaro, greets supporters on Sunday in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Most polls have shown Lula with a solid lead, but Bolsonaro signalled he may refuse to accept defeat, stoking fears of institutional crisis or post-election violence. (Rodrigo Paiva/Getty Images)

Lula has vowed to make a sharp departure from Bolsonaro’s environmental policies after deforestation in the Amazon rainforest hit a 15-year high. Lula has pledged to combat logging, step up protection of the biome and local tribes, and make Brazil a protagonist in climate diplomacy.

As in past elections, Brazil’s military has been mobilized to heighten security at some 477,000 polling stations, using electronic voting machines that allow for swift tabulation of results by the national electoral authority (TSE).

Following Bolsonaro’s criticisms of Brazil’s voting systems, the TSE invited a record number of foreign election observers, including first-time missions from U.S. observers at the Carter Center and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems.



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