Elections in Brazil 2022: who are the main candidates?

Or Brazil, one of the largest democracies in the world, is electing a president.

It is expected that more than 156 thousand voters will participate in the first round of voting on Sunday, October 2.

If two candidates receive more than 50% of two valid votes, the two candidates with the most votes will face each other in a second round on Sunday, October 30, one month later.

For now, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and current president Jair Bolsonaro are better positioned, but two other intermediary options are trying to gain a prominent position.

Além gives presidential race, or the country is renewing the entire Câmara dos Deputados and a third of the Senate.

The composition of these institutions will be the key to advance the agenda of the elected president.

Finally,

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 76 (left)

Lula da Silva is clearly the favorite to become president of Brazil for the third time.

The latest investigations give the candidate of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) 47% of support in the first round, 14 points higher than his main competitor, Jair Bolsonaro.

During the campaign, Lula touched on the achievements of his government (2003-2010), including the uprising of thousands of Brazilians out of poverty thanks to Bolsa Família and other social programs.

He now promises to raise the minimum wage above inflation and increase taxes on the rich.

Founder of the PT did not start two years 80, or leftist politician lost three presidential elections before being victorious in 2002. He left power in 2010 with extremely high popularity ratings, more than once or his prestige brought blows and blows.

The Lava Jato investigations led to his conviction for corruption, and it happened 580 days ago.

In 2019, he was released from prison and his sentence was subsequently annulled due to procedural falsities and no judicial process.

Now, or former trade unionist is trying to clear his name.

Jair Bolsonaro, 67 (extreme-direct)

The President Jair Messias Bolsonaro faces a complicated reelection.

We have been stagnating for several months with just over 30% of two votes and a high level of rejection among voters, especially women.

To return to the right path, the ultra-directive candidate of the Liberal Party - an old political formation that was so critical - tried to revive or anti-Petista sentiment - against the PT - that has been in power for four years, with references to the two corruption scandals governments of Lula and his successor, Dilma Rousseff.

In recent months, he announced a 50% increase in aid to the poorest, a measure that was denounced by his clear electoral component.

The ultra-directist was elected in 2018 in the last year, discrediting two traditional leftist and direct parties.

Despite almost 30 years as a deputy in Brasília, Bolsonaro presented himself as a foreign candidate who was not afraid of saying or that he thought, just as it meant defending the military dictatorship or insulting women.

Four years later, the history of Bolsonaro cannot be controversial.

The leader minimized the pandemic, dismissing it as a “flu”, promoting non-scientific treatments and delaying the purchase of vaccines.

The result was 660,000 deaths, 10% of the total number of deaths from covid-19 in the world.

Ciro Gomes, 64 (left center)

Ciro Gomes, candidate of the Partido Democrata do Trabalho (PDT), was the third in the race, but a long way behind two first placed.

The investigations gave about 7% two votes.

Likewise, Gomes resisted appeals from some sectors of the left to withdraw and facilitate a victory for Lula in the first round.

The center-left politician maintains a critical discourse both of Lula, that he was a minister, and of Bolsonaro.

A third way that he proposes is, among other things, to establish a universal minimum income.

This will be the fourth time that Gomes has run for president.

He competed in 1998, 2002 and 2018, but never ranked third.

With a more intellectual profile than his two main rivals, Gomes has been out of public office for four decades.

In addition to being a minister, he was a state and federal deputy, prefect of Fortaleza and governor of Ceará, a state in the northeast of Brazil.

One of the fruits of his administration is a notable improvement in the quality of education.

Simone Tebet, 52 (right center)

Simone Tebet is a woman who most desponta da corrida.

The current senator, candidate of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB), has about 5% of preferences in the first round.

Like Ciro Gomes, or center-direct candidate, he defends a third way between Bolsonaro and Lula, criticizing the machismo of the first and corruption during the government of the second.

He did not debate two candidates at the end of August, his performance was or was more appreciated by analysts and, according to the investigations, by undecided voters.

His proposals for him include the nomination of a parity government and a liberal economic agenda that seeks to expand the participation of the private sector.

Tebet is unless known two first four placed in the presidential race.

Before being elected senator in 2014 for Mato Grosso do Sul, she was a state deputy in the state and prefect of Três Lagoas, the medium-sized city where she was born.

Despite the support of the MDB, successor to the only opposition party allowed during the military dictatorship, they have the support of the PSDB, another party of the political establishment that is the historical opponent of Lula's PT.

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