The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of Brazil released the practically definitive results of the presidential elections at 2:15 (7:15 am Italian time) from which emerges the certainty of a ballot on October 30th between the two best placed candidates.
With the ballot papers of 99.99% of the seats, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Pt, left) received 57,254,672 votes, equal to 48.43%, while Jair Bolsonaro (Pl, right) got 51,070. 672, equivalent to 43.20%.
The third place in the choice of voters went to Simone Tebet (Mdb, center-right) with 4,915,217 votes (4.16%) and the fourth to Ciro Gomes (Pdt, left) with 3,599,157 votes (3.04 %).
Brazil remains in the balance.
The election result did not return a clear victory.
The party is postponed to the ballot on October 30th.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 76, an icon of the South American left, a great favorite in the polls, did not confirm the predictions of victory on the eve, which gave him up to 51% of votes already in the first round.
Almost at the end of the polls, the leader of the Workers' Party (PT) had totaled 48.43% of votes, while his opponent, the outgoing right-wing president, Jair Bolsonaro (Pl), 67, had 43.20%, beating all expectations, and heel in a count on the woolen thread.
"The fight continues until the final victory".
The ballot is only an "extension", commented Lula at the end of the ballot, encouraging the disappointed.
Returning to San Paolo from San Bernardo do Campo,
his electoral stronghold where he had voted in the morning, the left-wing leader awaited the response at the Novotel Jaraguà, with his wife Janja, the deputy designated for his future government, Geraldo Alckmin, and former president Dilma Roussef.
At the end of the evening he reached the avenue Paulista, reserved for the crowd bath of the turning point, and reduced instead to the theater for a hug with a few tens of thousands of supporters.
"We won on the lies" of the polling institute "Datafolha".
Now "I will work to change the vote of the people" promised Bolsonaro, the target of a hacker attack on the web page today.
He too has returned from his trip to vote, from Rio de Janeiro to the Palacio da Alvorada, his official residence in Brasilia, where the fence around the
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Despite the most polarized campaign in the history of the green-gold giant, the former trade unionist is convinced that it will be "easy to restore peace and democracy in the country" (ANSA)
From now until the end of October the game is undoubtedly open, and difficult days are announced for the green-gold giant, with a new high-tension electoral campaign appendix.
The risk is that Bolsonaro will throw fuel on the fire, setting fire to the squares and accelerating his attacks relentlessly to discredit the Higher Electoral Court (TSE) and its president, Judge Alexandre de Moraes, the heart of democratic procedures.
A dangerous drift, with Western countries - Europe and the United States in the lead - which in recent weeks had sent out appeals calling for respect for the rule of law.
And in this transition period, the outgoing president could enact provisional measures with immediate effect (with publication in the Official Journal),
to give new impetus to the liberalization of arms sales, thus increasing the risk of political violence.
An extreme polarization that in the 46 days of the poison election campaign, from August 16 to the opening of electronic polling stations on October 2, has already counted three deaths, and various episodes of intimidation.
According to analysts, the undecided, the abstention rate, and those who believed they embraced the choice of the so-called 'useful vote' (that is, those who would have wanted to see the election closed in the first round) weighed on the result.
Although voting for the 156 million Brazilians called to the polls is mandatory, the abstention rate has risen from 20.3% in 2018 to the current 20.94.
And Lula himself would have been the most damaged by this increase in absences.
The first round was also followed by the international observers of the Organization of American States, at the invitation of the TSE.
The group - made up of 55 experts from 17 countries - was deployed in 15 of the 26 federal states and in the District of Brasilia., Certifying that everything was done correctly, as stated by the head of the mission. urns were also the military of the army, in an initiative pushed by Bolsonaro, who like his opponent Lula now ponders his next steps for victory.
