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Flavio Bolsonaro leads Lula with 47.45% in Brazil vote
The Hindu··5 Oct
Brazil's electoral authority said Flavio Bolsonaro will face President Lula in an October 25 runoff, The Hindu reported. With just over 97 percent counted, the challenger had 47.45 percent of valid votes to Lula's 44.66 percent. Twelve candidates contested a campaign focused on living costs, corruption and insecurity. Flavio Bolsonaro, 45, is son of former president Jair Bolsonaro.
Prism
What It Means For You
- Households facing high debt and prices will watch runoff pledges on welfare and gambling curbs.
- A Flavio Bolsonaro victory could alter trade and security ties with Washington, analysts told Reuters.
- Undecided voters who backed eliminated candidates must vote again on 25 October.
What's Happening
- Electoral court chief Kassio Nunes Marques said Sunday afternoon the vote proceeded normally.
- Lula voted in Sao Bernardo do Campo and said Brazil's future was at stake.
- Flavio Bolsonaro told journalists in Rio he hoped protest votes might deliver a first-round win.
Brazil fiscal pressures
- The government lowered growth forecasts to 2.0 percent this year and 2.3 percent next year.
- Public debt above 82 percent of GDP has stoked fiscal concerns, the report said.
- Reuters cited intelligence briefings to European delegations on alleged US and Russian interference.
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