The populist right is gaining ground in Brazil too. In the first round of the presidential elections, with 98,75% of the votes counted, Jair Bolsonaro won 46,27% of the preferences, missing the direct election by less than 4%. The country will therefore have to return to the polls on October 28 for the ballot, in which the far-right candidate will be opposed by Fernando Haddad, a member of the Workers' Party (PT) and Lula's henchman, who did not go beyond 28,95 in the first round, XNUMX%.
Bolsonaro obtained a result higher than expected: the latest polls on voting intentions gave him just over 40% at most.
However, as Professor points out Giulio Sapelli in an interview with FIRSTonline, in the end Haddad could still win, “because the Brazilian left is very fragmented but will find convergence in the second round. For example, he will receive the votes of Marina Silva and Ciro Gomes, outsiders of Sunday's vote but who will hardly access the ballot. Bolsonaro, on the other hand, has a smaller pool to draw from: in the second round he will not recover many more votes than his electorate ”.
