Brazil’s presidential election is headed to a runoff. Brazil’s former President Luiz da Silva of the Leftist worker’s party won by 48%. Beating Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who received 43%. Lula has said that, “I’ve never won an election in the first round.” But there is wide-spread speculation that Bolsonaro could attempt to stage a coup to stay in power.
They will now face off on Oct 30 in what is widely regarded as the “most important votes in decades” for Latin America’s latest nation. Brazil has been facing host of challenges, including environmental threats, rising hunger, a sputtering economy and deeply polarized population. Mr. Bolsonaro said he “overcame lies” in the polls. Even with the positive results, he also suggested there could have been fraud. He claimed that, “there’s always the possibility of something abnormal happening in a fully computerized system”.
The two men are the country’s most prominent and polarizing politicians. The left in the Brazil views that Mr. Bolsonaro as a dangerous threat to the democracy and it’s standing on the world’s stage. While, conservatives view Mr. Silva as an ex-convict who was a central part of a vast corruption scheme.
Left even though corrupt needs to win the parliamentarian vote for workers to win and have their rights. The conservatives will reform the system and Mr. Bolsonaro is a chauvinist and an opportunist. As Vladimir Lenin said, “a basic condition for the necessary expansion of political agitation is the organization of comprehensive political exposure”. This political expansion is needed by the leftist party of Brazil for better condition of people.
