{"id":10397,"date":"2022-10-31T05:07:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T05:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/congokin.blog\/?p=10397"},"modified":"2022-10-31T05:12:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T05:12:52","slug":"10397","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/congokin.blog\/?p=10397","title":{"rendered":"La gauche gagne:Lula d\u00e9fait Bolsonaro au Br\u00e9sil!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lula defeats Bolsonaro to win third term as Brazil\u2019s president<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

By Anthony Faiola<\/a>, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paulina Villegas<\/a> and <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gabriela S\u00e1 Pessoa<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Updated October 30, 2022 at 11:08 p.m. EDT|Published October 30, 2022 at 8:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lula defeats President Bolsonaro in Brazil election<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Former Brazilian president Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva won the presidential election on Oct. 30, defeating incumbent Jair Bolsonaro after a bitter campaign. (Video: Julie Yoon\/The Washington Post)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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RIO DE JANEIRO \u2014 Former Brazilian president Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva reclaimed the office Sunday<\/a> on pledges to defend democracy, save the Amazon rainforest<\/a> and bring social justice to Latin America\u2019s largest nation, defeating Brazil\u2019s Trumpian incumbent in a remarkable political comeback some three years after he walked out of a prison cell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The victory for Lula<\/a>, who served two terms as president from 2003 to 2010, returns a leftist titan of the Global South to the world stage, where his progressive voice will stand in sharp contrast to that of right-wing \u2014 and now one-term \u2014 President Jair Bolsonaro<\/a>. For Latin America, Lula\u2019s return to the Planalto Palace adds the regional giant to a streak of wins by the left: Lula joins a club of leaders who have now bested the political right in Colombia, Chile, Peru, Honduras, Argentina and Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His win, which followed a slugfest of a campaign in a deeply divided country awash in fake news and explosive rhetoric, came amid allegations of official suppression of the vote<\/a> by Bolsonaro\u2019s allies in the police. Overall, the race sounded strong echoes of the 2020 showdown in the United States between Joe Biden and President Donald Trump<\/a>. It pitted Bolsonaro, 67, a staunch Trump ally, against Lula, 77, a stalwart of the traditional left who moved to the center during the campaign. Lula\u2019s strength lay in female and low-income voters \u2014 particularly the Northeast, heavily populated by people of color \u2014 but also in social progressives and power brokers disturbed by Bolsonaro\u2019s authoritarian bent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lula has pledged a unity government to work onmending the breaches in Brazilian society of the kind that, in an era of toxic politics, have taken root in democracies across the globe. The margin \u2014 Lula won by less than two percentage points \u2014 was the closest in Brazilian history. It was the first time an incumbent ran for a second term and lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the results were announced, Lula tweeted a close up of the Brazil flag, and one word: Democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have reached the end of one of the most important elections in our history,\u201d Lula told supporters in S\u00e3o Paulo. \u201cAn election that put face to face two opposing projects of the country and that today has only one winner: the Brazilian people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is not a victory for me or for the [Workers Party] or for those who supported me. This is a victory for a huge democratic movement that was formed above political parties, personal interests, ideologies, so that democracy would be the winner.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supporters in Rio de Janeiro set off fireworks and cheered. People in downtown S\u00e3o Paulo honked horns and sang through windows: \u201cLula there,\u201d the most famous jingle of the president-elect. And another tune: \u201cT\u00e1 na hora de Jair ir embora\u201d \u2014 It\u2019s time for Jair to leave. The city\u2019s famous Paulista Avenue became a sea of pro-Lula celebrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLula is a myth. The Brazilian Mandela,\u201d said Jussara Brito, 50, a nurse who said she saw too many patients die from the coronavirus<\/a>, which Bolsonaro dismissed as a \u201clittle cold.\u201d \u201cSeeing Bolsonaro leave is a relief. He is a murderer. I worked on the pandemic, he could have prevented thousands of deaths. Today, his defeat is a relief. Today was the answer that the Brazilian people gave him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the capital, Brasilia, hundreds of Bolsonaro supporters gathered in the Esplanada, where a man with a loudspeaker urged the crowds not to concede and to wait for their \u201cleader\u2019s statement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are with you, President Bolsonaro,\u201d he said. \u201cLula thief, you belong in prison!\u201d the crowd chanted in unison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Late Sunday, reports emerged of Bolsonaro loyalists blocking roads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Mato Grosso, the company that manages highways in the state said at least four stretches of a highway were blocked. In Santa Catarina, Bolsonaro supporters also cut off a stretch of a highway across the state, according to the UOL outlet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLula will not be our president,\u201d says a woman in a video from the Mato Grosso protest shared by O Globo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As voting unfolded earlier in the day, Brazil\u2019s most bitterly fought election since the collapse of the military dictatorship in 1985descended into allegations of police attempting to suppress the vote<\/a>. The Federal Highway Police, an organization closely allied with Bolsonaro, allegedly set up roadblocks to delay voters in the country\u2019s impoverished Northeast and other centers of support for Lula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Highway police director Silvinei Vasques had earlier posted a call to vote for Bolsonaro on Instagram, the newspaper O Globo reported. It was later deleted. Sen. Randolfe Rodrigues, a Lula supporter, demanded his immediate arrest. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, Brazil\u2019s chief election official, ordered Vasques to stop the operations immediately or face personal fines of nearly $100,000 per hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later Sunday, however, Moraes sought to calm concerns of a broader effort that could taint the vote. He said checkpoints had delayed, but not prevented, voters from casting their ballots, and he would not extend voting hours beyond the planned 5 p.m. close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere was no prejudice to the right to vote \u2026 There is no need to overstate this issue,\u201d Moraes said. \u201cThere were no cases where voters went home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the statement from Moraes, who has frequently locked horns with Bolsonaro, Lula\u2019s Worker\u2019s Party demanded an extension of the polls in the 560 places where it said \u201cillegal\u201d police operations had taken place. The party called for prioritizing extensions in the Northeast, where it said the operations were carried out \u201cwith greater intensity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brazil\u2019s Superior Electoral Court announced the result just before 8 p.m. Brasilia time. Bolsonaro did not immediately concede the race, and uncertainty remained over whether he would. As recently as Friday night, he said, \u201cwhoever has the most votes wins. That is democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But he and his supporters also laid the groundwork to contest a loss with months of allegations of fraud. Bolsonaro summoned foreign diplomats in July to cast doubt on electronic voting. Some analysts predicted that Bolsonaro, who followed much of the Trump playbook<\/a> during his rise to power and while in office, could do the same in defeat: refuse to concede and declare Lula\u2019s presidency illegitimate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another parallel: Bolsonaro\u2019s loss comes as the specter of criminal investigations hangs over him and his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of Bolsonaro\u2019s allies encouraged him to concede: \u201cIt is time to disarm the spirit, extend your hand to your opponents,\u201d House Speaker Arthur Lira said. \u201cWe reaffirm the fairness, the stability and the confirmation of the popular will. We cannot accept revanchism and persecution from any side. Now it is time to look ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Speaking to journalists late Sunday, Moraes said he had called both candidates to inform them of the result before the court\u2019s announcement of the winner, but suggested the conversations had been short and to the point. Bolsonaro, he said, had responded \u201cwith extreme politeness.\u201d He described the elections as clean and secure, and insisted there was no \u201creal risk\u201d the results could be contested. \u201cThis is part of the rule of law,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere has been major polarization and now it is more up to the winners to unite the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the United States, the contest took on the feel of a proxy war between Democrats and Republicans. In a letter to President Biden, congressional Democrats warned that Bolsonaro\u2019s \u201creckless and dangerous rhetoric about electoral fraud raise[s] serious fears\u201d that he will try to \u201cimpede a peaceful transfer of power if he loses.\u201d Trump, meanwhile, endorsed Bolsonaro, telling Brazilians in a video shared on the incumbent\u2019s Twitter account on Saturday that \u201cyou have a chance to elect one of the great people in all of politics and in all of leadership of countries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden was quick to recognize Lula\u2019s victory Sunday: \u201cI send my congratulations to Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva on his election to be the next president of Brazil following free, fair, and credible elections,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cI look forward to working together to continue the cooperation between our two countries in the months and years ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With 99.99percent of the vote counted, Lula was declared the winner with 50.90percent of the vote. Bolsonaro had 49.10 percent. The transfer of power is set for the first days of January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The candidates sparred over who would offer more assistance for the poor and who would raise the minimum wage. But they also became deeply mired in the culture wars now emblematic of modern democracies plagued by polarization. For Lula, the job of national healer will not be easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many economists and political analysts view Lula as a pragmatic elder statesman, but Bolsonaro\u2019s core supporters revile him. Danya Dorado, a 44-year-old housewife, who waved a flag with Bolsonaro\u2019s face in Brasilia, described herself as \u201canguished\u201d by the results \u2014 which she did not believe to be true. \u201cI am ready to fight for my country because I do not want my children and grandchildren to live in a second Venezuela,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Election Day in Brazil<\/a> became a global experiment on the power of misinformation. False narratives spread by Bolsonaro and his supporters in public comments and on social media insisted Lula would close churches and open unisex bathrooms in schools. Lula dismissed those claims as blatant lies, but many Bolsonaro supporters at the polls Sunday steadfastly believed them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t just have one bathroom for a kid to use with men of my age,\u201d said Mario Antonio Castro, an actor who voted for Bolsonaro in Rio de Janeiro\u2019s Flamengo neighborhood. He said he\u2019d also heard that Lula was offering \u201cbeer and steak\u201d to those who voted for him. \u201cThere are rules that exist your entire life. People no longer respect rules.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Others saw a civic duty in voting out Bolsonaro, who in recent days claimed that Lula\u2019s strong support in the Brazilian Northeast \u2014 a region with a disproportionately large population of people of color \u2014 was due to high \u201cilliteracy rates\u201d there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m a Black woman and I am a mother of three kids,\u201d said Vanda Ventura, a 49-year old stylist who voted in Rio. \u201cThe government in Brasilia does not represent me.\u201d Asked if she thought Black people in Brazil would vote for Bolsonaro, she said: \u201cNot the Black people I know. \u2026 The Black people who want liberty, who want to go to college, and want to grow and who want food will not vote for this genocidal man.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the capital, national tensions came to a head at a downtown polling station, where several voters wearing the telltale colors of their candidates \u2014 green and yellow for Bolsonaro, red for Lula \u2014 squared off in slur-shoutingscreaming matches, signaling the deep polarization in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cBolsonaro out!\u201d a young man wearing a red shirt shouted at a Bolsonaro supporter as he walked into the polling station at the University Center of Brasilia. \u201cMaconheiro!\u201d \u2014 a derogatory word in Portuguese that roughly translates as \u2018stoner\u2019 \u2014 the woman shouted back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same woman engaged another Lula supporter in a similar shouting match, leading police to intervene. Leonardo Rodrigues de Jesus, Bolsonaro\u2019s nephew and a former chief of staff for his eldest son, told a Washington Post reporter that a man shouting at a woman was \u201cprecisely the kind of leftist behavior\u201d the country needed to get rid of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Critics say Bolsonaro, a former army officer, has undermined democracy by stocking the prosecutor\u2019s office and police with loyalists while appointing current and former generals to his cabinet and other senior posts. If he had won the race, they feared, he might have sought to expand the Supreme Court, a body he has said is biased against him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lula, casting himself as the defender of Brazil\u2019s young democracy, garnered the backing of center-right leaders and former opponents, including former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bolsonaro, known for a blunt manner that included insults aimed at women, people of color and the LGBTQ community, connected with supporters through fiery social media posts. As the coronavirus pandemic hit the country hard \u2014 it has killed more than 687,000 people, and at one time was second in deaths only to the United States \u2014 he suggested vaccines could turn people into \u201creptiles,\u201d falsely claimed a link between the vaccine and AIDS, and touted unproven treatments against covid-19. As the virus ravaged the country, Bolsonaro dismissed it as a \u201clittle flu\u201d and told Brazilians to stop \u201cwhining\u201d and get back to work. He often berated the free press. During the first televised debate in the current campaign, Brazilian journalist Vera Magalh\u00e3es asked him about the country\u2019s coronavirus vaccination rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think you go to sleep thinking about me,\u201d Bolsonaro responded to her. \u201cYou have a crush on me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Bolsonaro often reserved his harshest comments for the man he saw as his personal nemesis: Lula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

A former shoeshine boy from a poor northeastern family who lost a finger at age 19 in a factory accident, Lula became a union leader and co-founder of the left-wing Worker\u2019s Party. After three failed runs at the nation\u2019s highest office, he won his first term as president in 2002 and reelection four years latter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His victory initially rattled investors, who feared the rise of a radical leftist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lula would calm those fears by dragging his party toward the center while he leveraged the global commodities boom of the 2000s to increase social spending and launch programs that reduced the hunger rate, lifted millions out of poverty and sent the children of poor Brazilian families to university for the first time. Former U.S. President Barack Obama called him \u201cthe most popular president on Earth.\u201d He left office in 2011 with a second term in 2011 with an approval rating above 80 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His administration was marred by political scandal, including a vote-buying case in Congress that engulfed members of his inner circle. Claims have emerged that Lula knew about it. He has maintained he did not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2018, Lula turned himself him in to serve a 12-year sentence on separate charges of accepting bribes from one of the country\u2019s major construction companies. Though Lula maintained his innocence, his arrest kept him out of the 2018 election that Bolsonaro won. To the outrage of Bolsonaro, who has called Lula \u201ca nine-fingered thief,\u201d he was released from prison in 2019 when the Supreme Court ruled he had been denied due process. The charges against him were annulled two years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey didn\u2019t lock up a man,\u201d he declared on the day he was freed. \u201cThey tried to kill an idea. But an idea can\u2019t be destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the campaign, Lula largely spoke in broad themes. He promised to fight hunger and poverty and to slow the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, which accelerated under Bolsonaro, and suggested an increase of taxes on the rich. Few observers believe he is likely to propose massive spending plans or take radical steps to redistribute wealth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLula understands well that all policies have to be fiscally sustainable and that large budget deficits will backfire in his attempt to be progressive in social issues,\u201d said Paulo Calmon, professor at the University of Brasilia. \u201cHe certainly will attempt to maintain some fiscal consistency in his policies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Bolsonaro does next will be key. Some say he might leave the country to avoid the possibility of prosecution for alleged crimes including a bloated vaccine deal at the health ministry and mishandling the pandemic. Others expect him to remain in Brazil, transforming himself into a formidable opposition leader who will seek to undermine Lula and stoke national divisions as he bides his time for the next election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bolsonaro can count on a loyal base of outspoken national lawmakers, as well as powerful governors in some of the country\u2019s largest states. His most powerful weapon remains an army of digital followers, which he has wielded as a weapon to build or destroy political careers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In governing a divided nation, Lula might benefit from the nature of Brazilian politics. Victors may draw lawmakers who did not back them during the campaign to fall in line with pork barrel spending and backroom deals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

But some observers see a wild card this time around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe nature of the right in Brazil has changed,\u201d said Guilherme Casar\u00f5es, a political analyst at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in S\u00e3o Paulo. \u201cAll they cared about before were office positions and resources, so Lula could run an administration even with the help of the right. But there\u2019s a new kind of right, a super ideological kind of right, a Bolsonarista kind of right. And the pro-Bolsonaro movement is not about political pragmatism. It\u2019s about total loyalty and submission to what Bolsonaro thinks is right.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Villegas reported from Brasilia and Sa Pessoa from S\u00e3o Paulo. Kiratiana Freelon in Rio de Janeiro contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n

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