Left-wing leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva beat Brazil’s outgoing right-wing president, Jair Bolsonaro, with 98% of the votes counted in Brazil’s presidential election.
The second round of voting is taking place in the presidential elections, as none of the candidates received more than 50% of the votes.
Lula received 48.07 percent of the vote, compared to 43.51 percent for Bolsonaro, according to the official website of the Supreme Electoral Court in charge of counting the votes.
In the citadel of Bolsonaro in the north and southeast, the screening was more advanced than in the citadel of Lula in the northeast.
The second round of the presidential elections in Brazil is scheduled for October 30.
Leading pollster Datafolha gave the former president 50 percent of the vote to Bolsonaro’s 36 percent in a poll released ahead of an election in which the veteran left-wing candidate is likely to win in the first round.
At the start of the tally, Bolsonaro gained a slight five-point lead over Lula as his supporters rushed to celebrate the preliminary results and his son, Eduardo, a congressman, tweeted: “Datavolha (opinion polling company) got it wrong. again.”
“Everyone is worried about the first results…but the states that are moving forward with the vote count are the most supportive of Bolsonaro…we will change the result,” prominent indigenous leader Sonia Guajajara, a congressional candidate, said at the Lula campaign center. in Sao Paulo.
Source: agencies