A day after an inconclusive presidential election, Brazil is now bracing for a frantic four-week campaign ahead of a runoff vote that will pit leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva against Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right incumbent president.
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — A day after an inconclusive presidential election, Brazil is now bracing for a frantic four-week campaign ahead of a runoff vote that will pit leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva against Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right incumbent president.'s first round showed da Silva, a former two-term president universally known as Lula, with 48.4% compared to 43.2% for Bolsonaro. The remaining votes went to nine other candidates.
The third and fourth-place contenders, Simone Tebet and Ciro Gomes, who garnered about 4% and 3% respectively, have not yet endorsed either of the two candidates headed to the second round. "We came here expecting to have a party, to get very happy, to have some beers," said Pedro Vilela, a data privacy consultant, who attended da Silva's rally."But now we are going home to just sleep and wait for the next four weeks to see how they go."Bolsonaro has spent months casting doubts on Brazil's electoral system and hinting that he might not accept the results if he failed to win another four-year term.
Yet in his comments to media Sunday night, Bolsonaro also acknowledged voters favoring the competition.
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