The first figures for the Brazil election are there: a nail-biter between Bolsonaro and Lula is possible

Created: 03/10/2022 06:13

By: Bettina Menzel, Andreas Apetz

The Brazil election is now being counted.

The first results see the incumbent President Bolsonaro ahead of his challenger Lula da Silva.

• Military wants to

  monitor

  elections in Brazil independently

  : random counts announced.

• Counting

  in Brazil election has

  begun

  : incumbent Jair Bolsonaro ahead of Lula.

• This news ticker about the

  elections in Brazil

  is constantly updated.

Update from Sunday, October 2, 11:44 p.m.:

More than 16 percent of all votes in the Brazil election have now been counted.

Jair Bolsonaro is currently in first place with 47.91 percent.

His challenger Lula da Silva is still in second place with 43.36 percent.

The two rivals are currently separated by around 800,000 votes.

A total of around 116 million Brazilians voted on election Sunday in Brazil.

Counting of the Brazil election has started - Bolsonaro just ahead

Update from Sunday, October 2nd, 10:25 p.m .:

The counting of the Brazil elections has started.

According to the news portal

, it starts with the foreign voices.

After evaluating around 550,000 votes, incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro has 47.9 percent of the votes ahead of his challenger Lula da Silva, who has 41.15 percent so far.

According to the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral - the highest electoral court in Brazil - the votes counted so far correspond to about 0.5 percent of all eligible voters.

Jair Bolsonaro, President of Brazil, leads a motorbike caravan with Sao Paulo gubernatorial candidate Tarcisio de Freitas in the back seat.

© Marcelo Chello/AP/dpa

Update from Sunday, October 2nd, 10 p.m.:

The polling stations in Brazil are officially closed.

All votes cast will now be evaluated electronically.

Eligible voters who are still in a queue should still have the opportunity to cast their vote.

This is reported by the Brazilian news portal

.

Results and projections will follow shortly.

Bolsonaro expects victory in Brazil election: "evidence" for "at least 60 percent"

Update from Sunday, October 2, 9:27 p.m .:

Despite poor results in the last election polls, the incumbent President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, is confident of his re-election.

This is reported by the Reuters news agency.

All “evidence” would point to an election victory.

"If we have clean elections, we will win today with at least 60 percent of the votes," said the incumbent president on election Sunday.

This would mean that Bolsonaro would have an absolute majority in the first ballot and would start his second term in office without a runoff.

According to Bolsonaro, he wants to contest a possible defeat.

He announced this long before the Brazil elections.

After his vote on Sunday afternoon, his challenger Lula da Silva spoke of an “important day”.

"Four years ago I couldn't vote because I was the victim of a lie... I want to help my country get back to normal," Reuters quoted as saying

Bolsonaro's opponents.

Long queues at polling stations in Brazil

Update from Sunday, October 2nd, 7:52 p.m .:

When will the first election results come out?

The voting booths in Brazil are still open for a little over two hours.

It remains to be seen how many residents will have voted by then.

Long queues have formed in front of the polling stations in all metropolitan areas in Brazil.

This is reported by the Brazilian news portal

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In Rio de Janeiro, voters are currently waiting more than three hours to cast their vote.

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According to Elton Leme, who is responsible for the electronic voting system, the exact cause of the extreme delays in the voting process has not yet been identified.

Anyone who has not been able to vote by the time the polls close (5 p.m. local time) will be given an alternative way to vote, Leme explains.

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Election crimes in Brazil elections are increasing

Update from Sunday, October 2, 5:59 p.m .:

As the Brazil election progresses, the number of suspected crimes increases.

As BBC Brasil reports, the Brazilian Ministry of Justice currently speaks of 339 registered election crimes.

The officials caught several voters violating the secrecy of the ballot and casting their vote twice.

In addition, the Department of Justice reports several cases of purchased votes.

The Brazilian news portal

also reports on a knife attack in a school in Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil.

The attack came from a voter and was directed at one of the police officers present.

According to the report, the perpetrator was immediately arrested and taken away.

According to the civil police, the police officer suffered minor injuries.

The motive for the crime is so far unclear.

Bolsonaro concedes first defeat in Brazil election - Clear victory for Lula in New Zealand

Update from Sunday, October 2, 4:43 p.m .:

The Brazil election also takes place outside the country.

In 29 countries around the world, decisions are being made today about who will be the next president: Jair Bolsonaro or Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

In New Zealand, the polling stations are already closed and all the votes have been counted - with a clear victory for Lula da Silva.

A total of 451 valid votes were cast on the island nation on Sunday.

As the Brazilian news

reports, Bolsonaro's left-wing challenger Lula da Silva received 329 of the votes counted.

This corresponds to 72.9 percent.

In contrast, only 15.7 percent of voters voted for Bolsonaro.

Update from Sunday, October 2, 3:20 p.m .:

The polling stations for the 2022 Brazil election have been open for two hours.

156 million voters are now deciding on the future of the country.

In the presidential election, far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro faces his left-wing opponent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

According to the Ministry of Justice, 275 electoral crimes have already been registered since the elections began on Sunday morning.

A total of 121 people were arrested, writes CNN Brasil.

According to the ministry, crimes in elections include violating the secrecy of the ballot, buying votes and casting votes without permission.

According to the Brazilian news portal

, election fraudsters face up to six months in prison.

A first attempt at electoral fraud has also been registered abroad.

In Portugal, Lisbon, the Federal Highway Police intervened when a non-resident voter attempted to cast his vote twice.

In all, almost 700,000 Brazilians are voting outside the country today.

According to CNN Brasil, the United States is the country with the largest proportion of foreign voters, with 183,000 eligible voters.

Brazil election has started for 156 million eligible voters

Update from Sunday, October 2, 1:42 p.m .:

The 156 million eligible voters in the presidential elections in Brazil can cast their votes until 5:00 p.m. local time (10:00 p.m. German time).

A poll by the opinion research institute Genial/Quaest on Saturday puts former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) ahead with 49 percent of the valid votes in the first ballot, followed by incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) with 38 percent.

The data is based on a face-to-face survey of 3,600 people on September 30 and Saturday, October 1, CNN Brasil reported.

The margin of error is two percentage points.

The opinion research institute Datafolha had previously come up with a larger lead for challenger Lula: According to this, the left-wing challenger would have received 50 percent of the votes of those surveyed, while the right-wing incumbent Bolsonaro only received 36 percent.

Poll sees challenger Lula ahead with 50 percent of the votes in the first ballot

Update from Sunday October 2nd, 9.55 a.m .:

According to the Brazilian polling institute Datafolha, the left-wing challenger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has 50 percent of the valid votes in the elections in Brazil, the right-wing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro has 36 percent, as reported by CNN Brasil .

The pollsters interviewed 6,800 people personally between Friday (September 30) and Saturday (October 1).

According to the Datafolha statisticians, the actual result can deviate by two percentage points.

In view of an impending defeat, incumbent Bolsonaro had already sowed doubts about the Brazilian electoral system.

Political observers therefore consider it crucial that challenger Lula receives more than half of the votes in the first ballot.

Then no second ballot would be necessary.

Otherwise, a runoff election would take place on October 30 for the two strongest candidates.

Before the presidential election, 34 people had already been arrested for attempted vote rigging, the Justice Department said on Saturday.

On Saturday alone, the day before the first round of voting, eleven suspects were arrested and 90,000 reais (17,000 euros) confiscated, it said.

In seven cases it was an attempt to buy votes.

Brazil is 24 times the size of Germany and has around 210 million inhabitants.

This makes it the fifth largest country in the world in terms of area and the sixth largest in terms of population.

Due to its sheer size and enormous natural resources, Brazil plays an important role in international security policy, world trade and climate protection.

The military in Brazil announces that it will independently monitor elections using random sample counts

Update from Sunday, October 2nd, 8:23 a.m .:

In Brazil there will be elections this Sunday.

More than 156 million eligible voters are asked to vote on their new head of state.

The first results can be expected on Monday night.

The right-wing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and the left-wing ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are up for election.

In polls, Lula, who ruled Brazil from 2003 to 2010, is well ahead of Bolsonaro.

The election is overshadowed by fears of possible unrest.

Similar to former US President Donald Trump, Bolsonaro has already indicated that he may not recognize the result.

In the run-up to the Brazil elections, he had repeatedly questioned the reliability of the electronic voting system.

Many of his supporters are armed and are calling for a military coup.

"Whether there is a peaceful handover after the election can strengthen or weaken democracy," said Oliver Stuenkel from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation of the German Press Agency.

"And given Brazil's size, that's important for democracy worldwide." The military has announced that it will independently monitor and check the elections by means of random sampling.

This is reported by the

portal .

If the official result differs from their count, the military wants to object to the election.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro greets his supporters during a campaign rally in Sao Paulo.

Brazilians will decide their future in this Sunday's presidential election.

© Marcelo Cello/dpa

Brazil election: Polls see challenger Lula ahead

First message:

Brasilia – Elections will take place in Brazil next Sunday.

156 million eligible voters are called upon to cast their vote and elect a President.

Recent polls suggest that right-wing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro (PL) faces a loss to left-leaning challenger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT).

As a precaution, Bolsonaro is fueling doubts about the electoral system in Brazil and even threatening the country's court.

The mood in the country is heated.

At least two Lula supporters have already paid for their support for the opposing candidate with their deaths.

Brazil elections: Challenger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva leads by double digits

The Brazilian presidential candidates (clockwise from left to right): President and candidate for re-election Jair Bolsonaro (PL), former President (2003-2010) and leftist Workers' Party (PT) candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Ciro Gomes (PDT ) and Simone Tebet (MDB).

© Miguel SCHINCariol / AFP

Hardly any other election in Brazil's recent history polarized the population so much - and there is a lot at stake.

While there are multiple candidates, polls suggest the decision will fall between two prominent names: right-wing incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro and left-wing Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who ruled the country from 2003 to 2010.

In 2018, the ex-president was sentenced to prison and imprisoned for corruption.

However, the Supreme Court overturned the verdict and the founder of the Labor Party PT was released after 580 days.

According to Lula, the procedure was called "politically motivated".

The aim was to prevent his participation in the 2018 presidential election - which Bolsonaro won at the time.

Brazil is divided on both the conviction and the release.

According to current polls, there could be a close outcome with Lula as Bolsonaro's opponent in the presidential election.

The opinion research institute Datafolha determined on Thursday 45 to 47 percent approval for ex-President Lula and 33 percent for right-wing incumbent Bolsonaro.

Although election polls are usually snapshots, they can certainly reveal a trend in the election campaign.

Datalfolha also published another survey that sheds light on the political climate in the country.

According to this, around 70 percent of people in Brazil are afraid of being attacked because of their political views.

That's no coincidence: in the past few months, at least two Lula supporters have been killed by suspected Bolsonaro fans.

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People walk past a blank billboard in the Rocinha favela in Rio de Janeiro.

Brazil's parliamentary elections are scheduled for October 2, 2022 (pictured September 27).

© Brazil, Rio De Janeiro: Silvia Izquierdo/AP/dpa +++ dpa picture radio +++

Like former US President Donald Trump, Bolsonaro, faced with an impending defeat in the presidential election, has started to doubt the electoral system - without providing concrete evidence.

Since 1996, Brazil has been using electronic voting machines that undergo annual security tests and are not connected to the internet.

As early as 2018, the right-wing incumbent claimed to have won the then presidential election in the first round – and not just in the runoff.

Bolsonaro is considered an ardent admirer of Trump, which is why critics also refer to him as "Tropical Trump".

The latest claims by the incumbent Brazilian head of state prompted the Supreme Court, which launched preliminary investigations into Bolsonaro.

Brazil elections: Bolsonaro threatens Supreme Court and his political opponents

Around a week before the presidential election, the right-wing politician openly threatened the Supreme Court in Brazil at a campaign event.

"You know that your freedom is being threatened more and more every day by another non-executive branch of the state," Bolsonaro said on Friday, referring to the Supreme Court investigation, as reported by the Brazilian newspaper

.

"And we know that we have to put an end to this abuse." Political opponents are enemies who "must be eradicated from public life," the incumbent said around September.

Something similar was heard from party circles: Francisco Cavalcante, a deputy from Bolsonaro's Partido Liberal party, recently said: "If we don't win at the polls, we'll win with bullets." In addition to the presidential election on October 2, Brazilians can also vote cast their ballots for new governors, senators and members of parliament.

There are also many bizarre candidates, names and slogans.

A candidate of short stature comes up with the slogan "I'm the smallest of your problems".

Other politicians chose the nicknames "Wolverine", "Mario Boss" or "Bill Clinton do Amapá" - according to Brazilian electoral law, candidates are allowed to give themselves nicknames.

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