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Lula and Bolsonaro set out to tour Brazil in the last hours of the campaign

2022-09-30T23:30:21.903Z


The two favorites in the presidential elections this Sunday shore up support with walks and caravans in states that are favorable to them


Lula da Silva, candidate for the Presidency of Brazil, at a campaign event in Fortaleza, in the state of Ceará.Jarbas Oliveira (EFE)

The frantic race for the presidency of Brazil does not give a break to the two favorites, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Jair Bolsonaro.

Still in full hangover from the last debate in the most polarized elections in recent times, a face-to-face brawl starring the attacks that lasted until dawn, the two leaders launched themselves from this Friday on last-minute tours.

They visited several States of this country of continental dimension, which allows them to participate in marches and divulge polls until the eve of the first round this Sunday.

The echoes of Thursday night's meeting, organized by the Globo network, still dominate the public debate, but the candidates continue to campaign at full steam regardless of fatigue.

Both try to shore up support in that final

sprint

without leaving their

comfort

zone too much in the hours until the polls open.

Lula, in his penultimate effort to attract the useful vote and secure the Presidency without the need for a second round, chose places where he leads the preferences.

Only this Friday, she traveled more than 1,500 kilometers by plane to consolidate her favoritism.

She spent the night in Rio de Janeiro, the seat of debate and the political cradle of the Bolsonaros.

There she called "stupid" in a press conference the current president's strategy of seeking a permanent confrontation with his Argentine counterpart, President Alberto Fernández.

“You cannot have a president in Brazil who continues to provoke Argentina every day, he is our main commercial partner.

It is stupidity of who governs.

It is going to cost us a lot to recover many things that have been dismantled here,” he lamented.

The 76-year-old Workers' Party candidate then headed to the northeast, a region where he has always enjoyed high levels of popularity.

He organized massive walks both in Salvador de Bahía and later in Fortaleza, the capital of the state of Ceará, which has been governed by Ciro Gomes, the third in dispute.

To win in the first round, Lula needs to garner undecided voters from Gomes, who persists in running as a third way and has redoubled his attacks on the two frontrunners.

The former governor, who was Lula's minister, does not give his arm to twist and declares himself the object of a "campaign of intimidation" to step aside.

Bolsonaro, 67, in search of a re-election that the polls suggest is uphill, participated in his famous motorcycle caravans, the massive

motociatas

, in Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais.

On Saturday he will lead another in Santa Catarina, two states where his allies are favorites.

On the eve of the elections, the spotlight will move to São Paulo, the largest electoral college in Brazil, where a good part of the fate of the presidential elections is also at stake.

More than 156 million Brazilians are called to elect not only the next President of the Republic, but also federal and state deputies, senators and governors.

Both Bolsonaro and Lula will accompany their candidates in São Paulo.

The former metal turner will take a mass bath in the central Paulista Avenue with Fernando Haddad, while the retired captain will accompany Tarcísio de Freitas in another motorized caravan

.

Like the presidential election, the duel for the richest region of the country will also be decided in a second round on the last Sunday of October if no candidate receives more than half of the votes.

In the presidential race, Lula has around 50% of the valid votes in the polls, which keeps open the possibility of a victory in the first round;

Bolsonaro accumulates a third of the support.

Several firms publish their latest measurements on the same Saturday.

In the geographical distribution of the vote, the left-wing leader almost triples the far-right president in the northeast, 63% against 22%, according to the latest Datafolha measurement;

he also leads him 43% to 35% in the Southeast, by far the two most populous regions, which account for 70% of voters.

Bolsonaro maintains narrow advantages in the south, center-west and north of the country.

Brazil has more lax electoral bans than other countries in the region.

Although Friday was the last day that candidates could publish campaign announcements in the press and on television, until Saturday at 10:00 p.m. they are still authorized to organize events with public address systems and amplifiers, but without large sound equipment or making speeches, as well such as distributing graphic material and participating in walks, marches and even

motociatas.

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