Brazil's top two presidential candidates were neck-and-neck late Sunday. With 76.3% of votes counted, leftist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had 46.2%, over incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro with 45.1%, according to the electoral authority.
At one point, Bolsonaro claimed to possess evidence of fraud, but never presented any, even after the electoral authority set a deadline to do so. He said as recently as Sept. 18 that if he doesn’t win in the first round, something must be “abnormal.”
“Unfortunately the Workers’ Party disappointed us. It promised to be different,” she said in Brasilia. Speaking after casting his ballot in Sao Bernardo do Campo, the manufacturing hub in Sao Paulo state where he was a union leader, da Silva recalled that four years ago he was imprisoned and unable to vote.“I want to try to make the country return to normality, try to make this country again take care of its people,” he told reporters.
On Saturday, Bolsonaro shared social media posts by right-leaning foreign politicians, including former U.S. President Donald Trump, who called on Brazilians to vote for him. Israel’s former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed gratitude for stronger bilateral relations and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán also praised him.
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