The senator Flavio Bolsonaro leads the scrutiny of the presidential elections held in Brazil this Sunday with 49.19% of the votes, ahead of the president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva which obtains 42.19%, according to the first official results released with 1.70% of the census counted.
If none of the candidates manages to overcome the barrier of 50% of the votes, a second round will be held between the two most voted on October 25.
Behind Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro, the first-born of former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, appear the psychiatrist and writer Augusto Cury (3.08%), the ultra agitator Renan Santos (2.47%) and the former governor of Goiás Ronaldo Caiado (2.33%).
Elections in Brazil
Nearly 159 million Brazilians were called to the polls today to elect the presidential ticket, as well as the governors of the 27 Brazilian states, the 513 federal deputies and two-thirds of the Senate, as well as to renew the representatives in the regional legislative assemblies.
The campaign, which officially began on August 16, has been developed in the midst of a high polarization between the progressivism that leads Lula and the extreme right that it champions Flavio BolsonaroHis father’s political heir, who is in house arrest after being sentenced to 27 years in prison for a coup.
