How Lula’s Successes in Brazil May Have Paved the Way for His Presidential Defeat
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Flávio Bolsonaro not only inherited his father's electorate as he won more than five million additional votes and advanced in territories where the current President dominated. The first round of Brazilian presidential elections suggests that pocket politics became greater than its founder. How could Lula da Silva realize a historical turnaround?
The only social class in which President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won in the first round was E. Nationale, received 54.4% of the votes of the poorest Brazilians. But the one in which he presented the smallest distance to Flavio was class A: 40.1% before 48.7% of the senator. In no region the distance between the two, in class A, was as narrow as in the Southeast. Bolsonaro's son won, but by 4 percentage points. In the city of Rio, Lula won in c…
How Lula’s successes in Brazil may have paved the way for his presidential defeat
Brazil’s veteran leftist President Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva trailed Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of his far-right predecessor, in the first-round presidential vote on Sunday. Some analysts suggest that the sweeping anti-poverty measures Lula put in place over two decades may have helped give rise to a growing lower-middle class drawn to the far right’s promise to get the government out of people’s lives.
The right takes a victory, the incumbent goes down to the final election. To still consider himself indispensable after three terms of office is not a good promise for the future of a country.
A first analysis indicates that the lower income sectors distanced themselves from the election and the leader of the PT. The country is a macro success, with notable numbers, but those results did not reach the pockets of that large voter space that is indebted to pay the basic expenses.
Aram Aharonian The defeat of progressism in the first round of the elections in Brazil can be interpreted as the floodgate to a colonization in new dimensions of Latin America, including this time Greenland and Antarctica (the backyard has expanded with Donald Trump), with the aggravating effect that the territory is [...] The entry The defeat of progressism in Brazil, an alert for the continent was first published in CLAE.
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