a heart attack runoff in Brazil

Next Sunday, October 30, the second round elections will be held in Brazil, in which the two country models they represent will face each other. Jair Bolsonarocurrent president, and Lula Da Silvaformer president and leader of the Workers’ Party (PT), with a less tight end according to the latest polls that were released.

The IPEC consultancy is one of the most listened to in Brazil, always with more favorable results for Lula: now they see him above Bolsonaro with 50%, against 43% of the head of state. However, this pollster is among those that gave the former president more than ten points difference for the first round elections.

This ballot seems to be more closed if the averages of the polls are taken, which for weeks have seen an approach of the right-wing candidatealthough they still give Lula the winner with 52% against 48% for Bolsonaro.

The growing expectation of the ruling campaign to turn the election around suddenly cooled down in recent days, after the case of Deputy Roberto Jefferson, an ally of the President who defended himself from being shot and threw two grenades at the Police. The accusation is for trying to carry out a coup d’état, with Bolsonaro at the helm.

Brazil 2022 elections: the fight between Lula and Bolsonaro

The dispute is over who will govern Brazil over the next four years and on which country model the South American giant will take. Something that also has the Argentine political leadership on edge, which sees in these elections a possible preview of what will happen in 2023.

During the election campaign which will culminate next Saturday, there were different episodes of violence that left two Lula supporters dead at the hands of Bolsonarists before the first round of elections.

The Jefferson case caused several injuries among the police forces, although it was not the only event of the week: a Lula delegation in Rio de Janeiro was attacked by eggs by Bolsonaro supporters. Inside the caravan that crossed the streets was Simone Tebet, who came out second in the first round and supports the PT candidate.

The expectations of domingo they are in a close election, with leadership changes in the preliminary results as happened in the first round, where Bolsonaro started up four points and finished five down. In this sense, the current president affirmed that he will accept the recount of votes if he loses.