The two candidates for the presidency of Brazil, in the shoulder to the end of the first round, must compete Sunday in the ballot boxes. The left leader is given winner of a short head by the surveys.
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It is a duel at the top, as tight as it is perilous, which awaits Brazil. Sunday, October 30, on the occasion of the second round of the presidential election, the outgoing far-right head of state, Jair Bolsonaro, will face his left opponent, the former trade unionist and president (2003-2011 in the ballot boxes (2003-2011 ), Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Two political “monsters” that everything opposes, starting with their vision of the country.
The last surveys give the victory of a short head to Lula, with 53 % of voting intentions, against 47 % to the outgoing president, according to the DataFolha Institute. In an ultra -polarized and under tension country, the undecided are now on the fingers of one hand: they only represent 2 % of the electorate. So many figures to be taken with care, as it remains difficult to assess the magnitude of the extreme right vote.
Since the first round of October 2, which saw the two candidates finish in the elbow, Lula as Bolsonaro threw all their strength in the battle, with, in sight, the evangelical population. The head of the workers’ party (PT) has multiplied the foot calls towards this conservative electorate, reiterating his opposition to abortion, pose alongside pastors and going so far as to publish an open letter to attention evangelicals.
“fake news”
Faced with an extreme right pouring its flow of hatred and “fake news” on social networks daily, the left resolved to type without taking gloves. In recent weeks, Lula’s campaign team has not hesitated to exhume and massively broadcast videos and embarrassing declarations for the Head of State, successively accused of being a freemason, cannibal and even pedophile …
This campaign, which some call “channel”, did not fail to confuse certain observers. “This second round is a tragedy. We have not talked about the future of Brazil. The debate has arrived at the fourth basement. Impossible to descend below!”, Lays Mathias Alencastro, researcher at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and planning.
These precipitated, late and often confused measures have not produced the expected effect. In one month, the old metallo only increased by a small point in the evangelical electorate, with 32 % of voting intention, according to DataFolha, against 62 % in Jair Bolsonaro. “The letter to the Evangelicals first aimed to limit the damage. It aimed to deny the” fake news “and to reduce their impact,” recognizes Valdemar Figueredo, pastor Baptiste and researcher at the University of Sao Paulo.
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