9:30 pm: The United States congratulated the Brazilian people on election day and called on them to remain peaceful and civilized for the next runoff.
Anthony Blinken spoke via a Twitter account and congratulated Barsil on conducting a first round of democracy: “We congratulate the people and institutions of Brazil for a successful first round of elections and we support the exercise of their right to freely choose their next leader. We share with Brazil the confidence that the second round will be conducted with the same spirit of peace and civic duty,” the secretary of state tweeted.
8:30 pm: Lula expressed his confidence this Sunday in winning the election against President Jair Bolsonaro in the second round, the next 30 October, and stressed that today’s result is just an “extension”. “We are going to win the elections,” Lula said in a speech at a hotel in Sao Paulo.
“To judge what happened today, you have to remember what happened four years ago. He was seen as if he were a human being from the politicsLula noted.
7:55 PM: With 98% counting, the two candidates who led the presidential elections, Lula da Silva and Jair Bolsonaro, will have to determine the presidency in a second round. Former President Lula finished with 48.8% of the valid votes and Bolsonaro came in second with 43.5% of the vote. The difference between the two candidates is almost 5%.
According to the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), after 97.45% has been screened, no candidate will mathematically achieve more than half of the vote, a threshold necessary to guarantee the election without the need for Second round, and Bolsonaro will no longer be able to top Lula.
7:10 PM: Former President Lula da Silva continues to lead Brazil’s election results. With 95.6% checked, he is in first place with 47.7% of the valid votes, while Bolsonaro is in second place four points below with 43.8% of the vote, according to official data.
On the verge of finalizing the total vote, everything indicates that there will be a runoff election to determine who will become the country’s new president.
6.40 pm: With 85.55% counting, Lula da Silva increases the advantage over Bolsonaro to 3 points. The former president has 47.3% of the valid votes and the current president, Jair Bolsonaro, is in second place with 44.1% according to official data.
6:20 pm: Former President Luiz Lula da Silva leads the presidential election with 46.5% of the valid votes, after casting 70% of the total in Brazil. Jair Bolsonaro, for his part, is in second place with 44.8% of the vote, according to official data.
5:15 PM: President Jair Bolsonaro continues to lead the presidential election with 47.5% of the valid votes, and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is in second place with 43.6%, after counting 30.93% of the total, according to official data.
4.40 pm: Brazil’s president, the far-right Jair Bolsonaro, is leading the presidential election this Sunday with 48.80% of the vote, according to official results, which only counted 5.42% of the census.
3:50 pm: Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva leads the presidential election to be held in Brazil this Sunday with 44.42% of the vote, according to the first official results, released when 0.19% of the census is counted.
3:15 pm: According to the first official results, former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will lead the presidential election this Sunday with 51.18% of the vote. So far, only 0.09% of the count has been counted.
Source: El heraldo
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