The gap between the candidates after counting 99.26% of the votes was minimal – 50.84% against 49.16%.
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defeated incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro in one of the most important elections in the country’s history. On Sunday, October 30, The Guardian wrote.
It was noted that according to the results of counting 99.01% of the votes, 50.84% of citizens voted for him, which is more than 59.7 million people. At the same time, the current leader of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, is supported by 49.16%, about 57.8 million voters. Thus, Lula da Silva was ahead of the current president of the country by almost 2 million votes.
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Until two-thirds of the protocols were processed, Bolsonaro was leading, but Lula da Silva closed the gap in votes for him in the northeastern state.
Lula da Silva, 77, founder of the left-wing Workers’ Party, ruled Brazil from 2003 to 2011, winning two presidential elections after three failed attempts in 1989, 1994 and 1998.
In 2016, Lula was sentenced to 12 years in a case of corruption and money laundering at the state oil company Petrobras. The scandal surrounding it also led to the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff in 2016. She is Lula’s successor as president and his colleague in the Workers’ Party. The former president himself, exercising his right to appeal, was not involved, and in 2021 the Supreme Court of Brazil overturned the sentences against him.
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Source: korrespondent
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