From Rio de Janeiro
The presidential campaign in Brazil is nearing its end, among so many emotions in recent months. Between the tiredness of the people – and of the candidates themselves – and the expectation, the last concentrations remain in the regions where they consider that they can obtain new support.
According to polls, only between 6 and 8% are still undecided. The two candidates are already widely known by the people. They have political careers of several decades, they have both already been presidents of Brazil.
The first reliable survey after the discussion between the two candidates for the presidency of Brazil presented Lula con 50%, Bolsonaro with 43% voting intention. Of the valid votes, 54 to 46% in favor of Lula, a difference of 8 points. Bolsonaro has 46% rejection, Lula 41%.
The Datafolha survey released this Wednesday cuts that distance to four percentage points. Lula gathers 52% of the eventual valid votes against 48% of the far-right president after his advantage was 53% to 47% in the survey published by the same firm a week ago.
Lula’s rallies are clearly more massive than Bolsonaro’s. The Bolsonaristas characterize his performance by the most exacerbated statements that have been known in Brazil.
Damares Alves, elected senator for Brazil, said that there are supposedly human trafficking mafias and sexual abuse of babies and children on the island of Marajó, in the state of Pará. Since she had no proof, she finally said that she had heard it on the street.
As if that were not enough, Bolsonaro himself made statements about the meeting with Venezuelan girls, revealing attitudes fully characterized as pedophilia. Bolsonaro thus ends his campaign in a difficult situation.
The latest surveys already confirmed the Lula’s favoritism, with differences between 4 and 8 points. What the Lulistas hope is not only that these polls be confirmed, but that the count does not take place the way it did in the first round. At that time, in the order of the voting places, Bolsonaro came out ahead, generating great anxieties, until Lula surpassed him to the end.
Bolsonaro is especially uncontrolled in his behavior and attitudes, as election day approaches. Lula appears to be physically tired, because he does not stop holding large gatherings in various cities in Brazil. Even so, the concentrations will continue until the eve of the elections.
Lula is especially committed to the candidacy of Fernando Haddad to the government of the state of São Paulo, the second most important political position in Brazil. Haddad loses, so far, against a Bolsonarist candidate, but the distance between them is diminishing.
will be days very intense and full of emotions until October 30, one day after two Brazilian teams – Flamengo and Athletico Paranaense, dispute, in Ecuador, the final of the Libertadores Cup. To add more emotion to this end of the month.
The same candidates have appeared tired in the penultimate televised debate.