Jair Bolsonaro wins Brazil vote, outright victory awaits final vote October 28

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Bolsonaro secured 46.93% of votes

Leftist Workers’ party Fernando Haddad won 28% of the vote.

Spectacular. Brazil is at a tipping point. The country of samba, soccer, beautiful beaches, and beautiful people deserves much better. Corrupt left-wing politicians have destroyed Brazil’s economy and have made Brazilian cities unsafe. In 2017 alone, Brazil recorded close to 60,000 homicides.

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As a result, conservative politician Jair Bolsonaro is riding a wave of popularity similar to what the United States experienced with President Trump. Bolsonaro has been called “Brazil’s Trump” due to his nationalistic policies and his tough stance on crime. The slanderers in the media have naturally referred to him as a “far-right” politician. Like President Trump, the media (both inside and outside Brazil) despise Bolsonaro. Fortunately, the media and cultural elites do not decide who wins elections. It is the voters who decide who wins elections. Ask President Trump.

The people of Brazil will need to make a choice: either embrace prosperity and safety by voting for Jair Bolsonaro, or vote for Fernando Haddad and become Venezuela.

Jair Bolsonaro wins Brazil vote but not outright victory

Far-right candidate will have to top poll in second-round run-off to secure presidency

The far-right Brazilian populist Jair Bolsonaro has secured a resounding victory in the first-round of his country’s presidential election, but fallen just short of the majority required to avoid a second-round runoff.

The [far-left] Guardian, October 6, 2018:

After a campaign as improbable and electrifying as any Brazilian telenovela – although infinitely more consequential for the future of one of the world’s largest and most diverse democracies – Bolsonaro secured 46.93% of votes – with 94% of all votes counted.

The second-placed candidate, the leftist Workers’ party Fernando Haddad, won 28% of the vote, according to Brazil’s superior electoral court, the TSE. Behind him came the Democratic Labor party’s Ciro Gomes with 12.5%.

Those results mean Bolsonaro, who received more than 46m votes, and Haddad will face off for the presidency on 28 October in a second-round vote.

“The next few weeks are just going to be crazy. The country is just going to divide even more,” predicted Monica de Bolle, the director of Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

“It’s going to be a horrible campaign in the second round. It’s going to be one side smearing the other. Bolsonaro is going to be coming out with all the dirt on the PT [Workers’ party] – and there’s plenty of that. And the PT is going to be coming out with a lot of dirt on Bolsonaro – and there’s plenty of that too.”
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Jubilant Bolsonaro followers gathered outside his beachside home in western Rio de Janeiro on Sunday evening to celebrate the result with fireworks and a barbecue.

Many of those present wore T-shirts emblazoned with Bolsonaro’s image and the slogan “É melhor Jair acostumando!” – a play on the politician’s name that roughly translates as: “You’d Bolso get used to it!”
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Jean Sartorial, a 33-year-old banker who had come to the party in a blue Brazil football jersey, said: “Jair Bolsonaro is hope for the Brazilian people.”

Thiago Xavier, a 30-year-old estate agent, agreed: “Bolsonaro is a legend.”

There was frustration and defiance as it began to sink in that Bolsonaro would fall just short of a first-round victory.

“Damn, 48%!” said Washington Silva, 66, a retired air force colonel. “The second round will be fiercer,” Silva added. “More aggression.”

Brian Winter, the editor-in-chief of Americas Quarterly, said the colossal support for Bolsonaro in much of the country meant he was a huge favourite to beat Haddad.

“The path for Haddad to close that gap looks almost impossible,” he said. “This idea that Bolsonaro can save the country and make it safe for people to walk on the streets at night and tend the corruption in Brasília and make a dent in 13m unemployed – that’s an idea most Brazilians now seem to have bought.”

In a broadcast on the eve of the election, Bolsonaro, the 63-year-old candidate of the Social Liberal party echoed Donald Trump with a call to his 7 million Facebook followers: “Let’s make Brazil great! Let’s be proud of our homeland once again!”

Throughout his 27-year career as a congressman, Bolsonaro has been notorious for throwing vitriol at Brazil’s black, gay and indigenous communities, as well as his support for military rule.
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“Yes, I’m in favor of a dictatorship! We will never resolve grave national problems with this irresponsible democracy,” the politician, who has been described as a blend of Hugo Chávez and Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, told Congress in 1993.

In a 2015 interview, Bolsonaro defended the dictatorship that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985 – responsible for killing and disappearing hundreds of opponents – as a benevolent but essential means of preventing “the ‘communisation’ of our country.”

“You had complete freedom to come and go and do whatever you wanted to do in our country [back then]. It was an era of employment, security, respect, education,” he claimed.
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Last month, Bolsonaro called for his leftwing political opponents to be shot. Two days later he himself was stabbed in an attempted assassination at a rally.

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Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago

Left/Liberals can only destroy countries like this Left/Liberal utopia http://tinyurl.com/yavxfl4m

…where its Gun Free , govt terrorises citizens and they hunt cats and dogs for food !

harbidoll
harbidoll
5 years ago

Dictator v Commi? great. que pasa?

dad1927
dad1927
5 years ago

many of that 28% are dead….. Still voting!

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