Brazil is holding presidential elections on Sunday, which are considered the most important in decades. Opposite are the sitting president, the right-wing populist Jair Bolsonaro, and the leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
There is growing concern in Brazil that the sitting president Jair Bolsonaro will not accept the result of next Sunday’s presidential election if he loses the election Luiz Inácio to Lula da Silva.
Bolsonaro’s son Flavio Bolsonaro even before the election day claims the second round of the election as “the biggest election fraud ever seen”, The Guardian (you are switching to another service) tells.
The language is similar to what Donald Trump spent after losing For Joe Biden in the US presidential election. Trump is Bolsonaro’s most important foreign ally.
Lula da Silva leads Bolsonaro in recent opinion polls by a few percentage points.
Trump’s accusations about the incorrect election result culminated in the violent takeover of the US Congress building at the epiphany of 2021.
Indications of a possible recourse to election fraud accusations were also received from President Bolsonaro’s Minister of Communications Fábio Farian at a press conference earlier this week. Faria spoke of “serious violations of the electoral system” without evidence.
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Flávio Bolsonaro has spread election fraud in particular on Twitter. (you switch to another service)
The observers interviewed by The Guardian consider it possible that Bolsonaro could indeed deny his possible defeat.
For example, a Brazilian political journalist Thomas Traumann says he is sure that Bolsonaro is preparing to contest the election result if it is unfavorable to him. Traumann considers the elections to be the most important for Brazil for decades.
Brazil is preparing for Sunday’s elections in a rare split. In addition to the president, a third of the senate and all members of the country’s house of representatives are elected in the elections.
Lula da Silva, who is leading the presidential election in opinion polls and represents the Workers’ Party, was president before, in the years 2003–2011.
Lula was sidelined due to corruption accusations against his party and the country’s leadership. Lula even sat in prison, but the sentence was later found to be unfounded.
At the age of 77, Lula da Silva is now trying to return to the leadership of the country.
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