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Lula elected president of Brazil for the third time: 'I am risen'

2022-10-31T13:52:50.966Z


Right-wing candidate Bolsonaro, who has not accepted the defeat, has been overcome by a whisker (ANSA)


The leftist leader,

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

(Pt) won the ballot, and was

elected president of Brazil for the third time

.

Lula beat the current head of state,

Jair Bolsonaro

(Pl, right), the first president to fail in his re-election attempt.

The Higher Electoral Court has formalized the victory, with 98.86% of the total of the sections scrutinized, Lula obtained 50.83% of the votes (59.596.247), against 49.17% of Bolsonaro (57.675.427).



Bolsonaro has not yet accepted Lula's victory.

Defeated in yesterday's ballot, outgoing Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro did not comment on the results published by the Higher Electoral Court (TSE) and did not even acknowledge the victory of former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

People close to the defeated candidate admitted in statements to the media that "there is no climate to contest Lula's success".

Mauro Cesar Cid, a close collaborator of Bolsonaro, warned government ministers who were trying to get in touch with the defeated head of state that the person concerned "had gone to sleep".

As evidence of this, the journalists were able to note that the lights in the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia were closed at 22.06.

The Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper noted that Lula's victory represents an unprecedented event in the history of presidential elections in Brazil since the return of democracy, namely that Bolsonaro is the first president who failed to get re-elected.

Instead, Fernando Henrique Cardoso had obtained it in 1997, and subsequently Lula himself, in 2006, and Dilma Rousseff (in 2014. The newspaper concludes by warning that, despite being defeated, "President Bolsonaro comes out strengthened and can already be automatically considered a pre-candidate for succeed Lula in 2026, given the consolidation of Bolsonarism throughout the country ".

Lula, worried that Bolsonaro won't accept defeat.

Brazil's president-elect, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, expressed concern that outgoing president, Jair Bolsonaro, has not yet acknowledged defeat.

"I am half happy and half worried: I need to know if the president we defeated will allow the transition. Anywhere in the world the defeated president would have called" the winner, Lula said in the night speaking to thousands of supporters gathered on the Avenida Paulista, the most important avenue of the São Paulo megalopolis.

ANSA agency

Lula, the worker-president ready for the great return


Happiness and sadness erupt throughout Brazil at the end of the defeat for the presidential ballot that gave victory to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Carousels of cars and motorbikes, shouts from the windows of the apartments, honking sounds and flags in the wind fill the streets of the main cities.

On the one hand, the supporters of the former trade unionist, in tears of joy, on the other, the silence of disappointment from the fans of Jair Bolsonaro.

In a nation split in half, the most polarized elections in the country's history are reflected in the moods of its citizens, divided by opposing supporters as in a national football final.

In Rio de Janeiro, the second largest metropolis of the South American giant, cheering voters flocked to the beach, flooding the Copacabana neighborhood with their joy.

Source: ansa

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