A few days before the elections on Sunday, October 2, not Brazil, or former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva leads the investigations with numbers that are approximately the goal of two valid votes that he needs to win in the first round.
The current president, Jair Bolsonaro, is seeking reelection and is accompanied by about one third of two votes.
More than 156 thousand Brazilians are called to the polling stations in the 26 states of the country and the Federal District of Brasília to elect, in addition to the next President of the Republic, federal deputies, state deputies, senators and governors.
The entire Chamber of Deputies and a third of the Senate will be renewed.
How to vote?
Voting is mandatory for Brazilians between 18 and 69 years old, and optional for those between 16 and 17 years old, as well as for those over 70. To gain access to the polls, voters must present an identity document with a photo to prove their identity. identity.
You can verify your polling station on the website of the Superior Electoral Tribunal.
There are five elected positions: federal deputy, state deputy, senator, governor and president.
In the electronic ballot boxes the options are available in nessa order.
The voter must enter the number of their candidate and verify their name and their photograph to confirm their vote.
Lula, for example, is number 13;
Bolsonaro, 22. Cell phones are not allowed in the voting booth and must be left at the voting table in advance.
In Brazil, there is no national “dry law”, imposing restrictions on the sale of alcoholic beverages, but some two less populous states adopt some form of regulation.
Electoral legislation establishes that voters cannot be imprisoned or detained from terça-feira, five days before the polls, up to 48 days after the first shift on Sunday, unless they commit in flagrante delicto, in compliance with a judicial sentence for offense not subject to sanction or for violation of safe conduct.
Or what do we say as investigations?
One week before the vote, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (44.9%) was about ten points ahead of Jair Bolsonaro (34.5%), according to media inquiries conducted by EL PAÍS.
In third place is Ciro Gomes (7.1%) and in fourth place is Simone Tebet (4.9%).
In the last week of the campaign, an avalanche of inquiries is still being released.
In some, Lula is close to 48% and Bolsonaro is a little below about 32%.
If only valid votes were considered (without counting the blank, null and undecided votes), with these numbers or former president he could exceed the goal limit of two votes necessary to seal the election in the first round, something that he did not achieve in the two days. previous occasions in which he was elected president (2002 and 2006).
In the middle of the measurement frenzy, the firms Ipec and Datafolha will present their latest measurements on Saturday, the day before the elections.
What are the calendars for the presidential elections?
The vote in the first round will take place on Sunday, October 2.
The polls are open for a period of 9 hours, between 8 am and 5 pm, according to the Brasília time.
All the voters appear simultaneously, even if there is a time difference between the time frames of a country of continental dimensions.
The first results of the day of the election must be known one hour after or closing the polls.
When is it scheduled or second shift?
If two presidential candidates win more than the goal of two valid votes on Sunday, or the second round between the first two will be held on Sunday, October 30.
It is the same system for the 27 governors to be elected.
Who are the main candidates?
Lula da Silva, who was president between 2002 and 2010, is the favorite.
Forged in union struggles, or a leftist leader, he helped found the Partido dos Trabalhadores in the 1980s and lost three elections before being elected in 2002 and re-elected in 2006, both times in the second round.
He left the position with extremely high popularity ratings, but spent 580 days in prison after being convicted of corruption.
In 2019 he was released from prison and later the judicial system annulled his conviction due to procedural falsities or judicial process.
The current president of the extreme-direction, Jair Bolsonaro, is seeking re-election as a candidate for the Liberal Party.
Deputy in Brasília for almost 30 years, he was elected in the middle of two traditional parties in 2018, when he presented himself as an outsider.
His mandate has been surrounded by all sorts of controversies, including minimizing the coronavirus pandemic.
Ciro Gomes, former governor of the State of Ceará, is running as third party.
The candidate of the Democratic Labor Party (PDT) was a candidate in 1998, 2002 and 2018, and he is not about to give up, despite two appeals for him to open the way for a victory for Lula in the first round.
Senator Simone Tebet, from the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB), appears in fourth place at the polls.
Like Ciro Gomes, she defends the need for an alternative to Bolsonaro and Lula.
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