Lula in the lead ahead of Bolsonaro after the first round

In São Paulo (Brazil), the activists of Lula, former president of the workers’ left, celebrate, without jubilation, the short lead of their candidate in the first round of the presidential election, Sunday, October 2. “I’ve never won an election in the first round, it seems like fate likes to make me work a little harder”, announces Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, candidate for the Brazilian presidential election. In the first round, he won 48.4% of the vote, slightly ahead of Jair Bolsonaro, the outgoing president, who obtained 43.2% of the vote. The polls predicted a 15 point difference between the two candidates.

“I am revolted because we should have won, for good, from the first round”, says a socialist activist. For its part, the camp of the far-right candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, still hopes for victory. Despite the 650,000 deaths due to Covid-19, mass poverty and the deforestation of the Amazon, Jair Bolsonaro presented himself as the candidate of order. The second round of the Brazilian presidential election will take place on October 30.