Posted on 10/07/2018 6:30:52 PM PDT by EdnaMode
The far-right Brazilian populist Jair Bolsonaro has secured a resounding victory in the first-round of his country’s presidential election, but fallen just short of the majority required to avoid a second-round run-off.
After a campaign as improbable and electrifying as any Brazilian telenovela – although infinitely more consequential for the future of one of the world’s largest and most diverse democracies – Bolsonaro secured 46.93% of votes - with 94% of all votes counted.
second-placed candidate, the leftist Workers’ party Fernando Haddad, won 28% of the vote, according to Brazil’s superior electoral court, the TSE. Behind him came the Democratic Labor party’s Ciro Gomes with 12.5%.
Those results mean Bolsonaro, who received more than 46 million votes, and Haddad will face off for the presidency on 28 October in a second round vote.
“The next few weeks are just going to be crazy … the country is just going to divide even more,” predicted Monica de Bolle, the director of Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Sounds like another wave of the Trump Effect
Wow 47%! Seems a cinch for the next round.
Boy he’s taking on a hard job- like Trump did. Hope he’s as intrepid..
All these “populist” victories never get the credit they deserve, which is they show the elites are the unpopular ones and no longer can pretend to represent average folks. They represent their own socilaistt/progressive/marxist agendas but not “the people”.
MBGA? or for the first time.
Totally agreed. The elite only care about each other.
Every interview Bolsonaro does, he always mentions Trump as his idol and even stating that they labeled Trump as this and that etc and never stuck. Probably will be the most pro US president from Brazil..
Looks like he beat the earlier ‘polls’ by quite a bit.
They said 38% at best for him, he got 46%.
Brazil has extremely strickt gun laws, and one of the highest murder rates in the world.
FakeNewsMSM lied and lied about his popularity. 22% claimed BBC:
10 Sept: BBC: Bolsonaro: Brazil politician’s health ‘improving’ after stabbing
Polls suggest Mr Bolsonaro is the favourite to win the first round of Brazil’s presidential elections on 7 October with an estimated 22% of the vote...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45470986
as election loomed closer, time to report something closer to the truth, so as not to be embarrassed:
5 Oct: TheCourierAustralia: AAP: Bolsonaro leads Brazil presidential poll
The Datafolha poll found Bolsonaro had 35 per cent support, a three percentage point jump since Tuesday...
https://www.thecourier.com.au/story/5686094/bolsonaro-leads-brazil-presidential-poll/
now FakeNewsMSM is suggesting polls show “tied runoff”. compared pics of Bolsonaro and Haddad in the following:
8 Oct: BBC: Brazil election: Far-right Jair Bolsonaro wins first round
With almost all the votes counted, Mr Bolsonaro had 47% and Mr Haddad 28%.
Opinion polls conducted before the election predicted that in a second round the two candidates would be tied...
Mr Bolsonaro has stirred controversy with racist, homophobic and misogynist comments and there have been mass demonstrations against him...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45780176
8 Oct: UK Express: Brazilian Trump? Exit polls show ‘TSUNAMI’ in favour of right-wing presidential candidate
BRAZIL could elect its very own Donald Trump as a populist, former army captain who praises dictatorships could become the next Brazilian president, polls have indicated.
By Sam Stevenson
Murillo de Arag, head of the Arko political risk firm in Brasilia, said: “Exit polls are showing a tsunami.”...
Mr Bolsonaro, who compares his campaign to US President Donald Trump’s 2016 run, dismissed as “fake news” the accusations of sexism, racism and homophobia that he has stirred with a record of offensive comments...
An Ibope exit poll for the Rio de Janeiro governor race showed former judge Wilson Witzel, a Bolsonaro ally, scoring a shock victory over former Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes.
The result offers a substantial boost to presidential hopeful Mr Bolsonaro’s campaign as his political ideology takes root and gains ground in the colossal South American nation...
A deep disillusionment has been sown in the minds of the Brazilian public as they blame PT (Workers Party) for rampant corruption which has led to successive impeachments...
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1028223/Brazil-election-2018-Jair-Bolsonaro-Donald-Trump-Social-Liberal-Party-workers-party
So Brasil’s mainstream media polls are as good as our mainstream media polls?
Believable!
2:1 in 1st round, I’d say he’s going to win rather easily in the 2nd
why the FakeNewsMSM hate/fear Bolsonaro:
23 Jul: Independent Ireland: Brazil far-right politician enters presidential race
He spoke about helping police to crack down on crime, filling his Cabinet with military officers and taking Brazil out of the Paris climate accord...
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/latin-america/brazil-farright-politician-enters-presidential-race-37144778.html
translation:
4 Aug: Globo Brazil: Jair Bolsonaro
The candidate also defended that Brazil leave the Paris agreement on the climate.
https://g1.globo.com/politica/eleicoes/2018/noticia/2018/08/04/jair-bolsonaro-diz-que-se-eleito-pode-privatizar-petrobras-se-nao-tiver-solucao.ghtml
FakeFakeFake Time/Associated Press.
8 Oct: Time Magazine: Associated Press: Brazil’s Far-Right Candidate Jair Bolsonaro Surprises With Overwhelming Election Lead
With 92.5% of returns in, congressman Jair Bolsonaro was leading polls with 47% of the votes...
Bolsonaro, however, has far outperformed expectations...
no surprise to anyone who was watching. btw Bolsonaro couldn’t even campaign during the final month, because he was in hospital, recovering from a very serious stabbing by a guy “on a mission from God”.
Conservative candidate Jair Bolsonaro easily finishes first in the first round of voting in Brazil’s presidential election. His 46.1% of the vote (with 99.8% of precincts reporting) was far higher than his expected mid-to-high-30s result. Because (as usual in Brazil, which has like a dozen presidential candidates) no one got to 50%+1, Bolsonaro will face second-place finisher Fernando Haddad (from imprisoned President Lula’s Leftist party), who got 29.2%, in the October 28 runoff. It should be noted that another center-right candidate got 4.8%, so Bolsonaro has a fairly easy road to 50%+1 in the runoff, whereas Haddad would need to get votes from like ten other left-of-center candidates and hope for high Leftist turnout; my money is on Bolsonaro. Here are the most recent results:
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-brazil-election/
BTW, the media keeps calling Bolsonaro a “far-rightist,” but his views would be unremarkable for a mainstream Republican in Alabama or Wyoming. If he’s “far-right,” then so am I.
“far right”
What percentage of the vote is required before “far right” is considered “centrist? Apparently it’s not 50%. Maybe 70%? 80%? Or does “far right” just mean “less leftist than me”?
On the flip side, I've heard some Christian conservatives claim Jair Bolsonaro is an "Evangelical" candidate, despite the fact that Jair Bolsonaro is actually a Roman Catholic and has nothing to do with protestant theology. Shades of Rick Santorum in 2012. Getting a large share of "Evangelical" voters don't make you the "Evangelical candidate", anymore than Obama getting the vast majority of Jewish voters made him "the Jewish candidate"
About the time of the last election, we went to our son’s wedding in Brazil. The people we were staying with said there were 30 some parties in Brazil and they all had Communist in their name. I suspect not having “Communist” in your parties name makes you “far right”.
“...he media keeps calling Bolsonaro a “far-rightist,...”
Anyone who isn’t a complete scumbag POS nazi/communist/socialist is “far-right” to the media.
This is the guy who got stabbed? Tough fellow—Just what Brazil needs at this point in her history. He will work well with Trump! Make Brazil Great Again!
“The next few weeks are just going to be crazy … the country is just going to divide even more,” predicted Monica de Bolle, the director of Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
Oh yeah, because an election in a country always leads to more division when the leftists don't win. Another academic unfit to work in education shills for leftist politicians.
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