Posted on 10/30/2022 6:29:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is set to become the next president of Brazil, after defeating his rightwing rival, incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, by a razor-thin margin.
The leftist former leader, widely known as “Lula,” won 50.90% of the votes, with over 99% of the votes counted in a fiercely contested run-off election on Sunday.
Bolsonaro, who mustered 49.10% votes, will be denied a second term.
Lula da Silva supporters thronged São Paulo Avenida Paulista on Sunday evening after polls closed. The mood was celebratory even before the results were called, with people setting off flares when he was declared winner by the country’s election authority.
Many had tears in their eyes, telling CNN that they were hopeful for the country, which has been struggling with high inflation, limited growth and rising poverty.
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How do you say, “Vote for the Crook, it’s important” in Portuguese?
Bad news
I wonder if the election was stolen?
We had runaway inflation after Liz Truss, the conservatives’ conservative, thought it would be a brilliant idea to give massive tax cuts to the mega rich while confirming no spending cuts. But her biggest mistake was to block the Bank of England and the office for budget responsibility.
Runaway inflation is not a function of left or right, it’s what any government ends up with if it can’t or won’t demonstrate how it’s going to balance the books.
Jail bird wins! hello china!
Perhaps you should investigate vote fraud caused by machines before piping up on this election.
I am still waiting for you to tell me about the convicted Communist Brazilian President they extracted from prison and put on the ballot, Mr. Marx.
Riiiiight.
Interestingly enough, the word “Dominion” does not appear in this article.
Its Brazil. They aren’t a global power. Quite frankly, I couldn’t care less.
first they came for the brazillians, and i said nothing. i wasn’t brazillian, so why should i care?
i know right, i find it hard to believe, bolsonaro who has control of the country in the past from the top down, couldn’t deal with a little ‘fruad’?
i think he got complacent
NOW you are uninterested in "Brazilian politics?"
You seemed to know everything about it when you said to me...
Really? Hey genius, this election was in Brazil. But the same whining losers are complaining about “stolen elections” when then know basically zero about Brazilian politics.
You're the one who appears to know "basically zero" about "Brazilian politics" and the extreme corruption thereof that makes a stolen election a distinct possibility, just like in Venezuela and the United States.
Brazil Under Attack: The Insidious Plot to Remove Anti-Communist Bolsonaro from Office
Whats it like being a whining crybaby who cries “stolen election!!!” every time you don’t get your way? I remember when AlGore was roundly mocked, and we laughed about SoreLoserman. And now the tables have turned, and in an election that wasn’t nearly as close, some babies just will. not. shut. up.
Winston Churchill said a fanatic is one who is one who “can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.” You all fall into that category.
WOW, close race, easily the Leftist had fraud on his side. He was aligned with the Chicoms, I’m sure they helped him.
So you don’t require any evidence to form an opinion.
You just KNOW.
Poster boy for the Dunning-Kruger effect.
As countries go, Brazil isn’t an insignificant one.
A 50-49 victory isn’t any landslide and probably won’t change things as much as some think. Lula was already president once and the country managed to survive.
We’re always open now to the idea that a close election could have been stolen. That’s possible, I guess, but it’s at least as likely that it wasn’t.
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