Tomorrow Sunday, Brazilians return to the polls for the second round of the presidential election. They will have the choice between far-right outgoing president Jair Bolsonaro and his left-wing rival Lula da Silva, who already ruled the country for eight years from 2002 to 2010. The former worker from the northeast of the country came moved with his family to São Paulo, further south, in the 1950s. They lived in the southern suburbs of the economic capital, in a working-class neighborhood.
Lula, Bolsonaro? One is a thug, the other a vagrant, explains to our special correspondent, Achim Lippold, this owner of a small restaurant which is close to the old house of Lula. And as he prepares the tables for lunch, he clarifies that no, he will not vote. In 2018, residents of the working-class Vila Carioca neighborhood, made up of small individual houses, voted overwhelmingly for Jair Bolsonaro.
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The president who can always count on Fernando Diaz, mechanic. ” I hope Bolsonaro will win again. He’s the guy we need. Thanks to him, the economy has improved, people are working! The other, he comes from the people but hey, they say he stole millions. If the left comes back to power, it’s over with Brazil, we will become like Venezuela or Cuba “.
Under Bolsonaro everything is fine? An opinion that Darcy, another resident of the neighborhood, does not share. ” I am unemployed. To make ends meet, I have to sell beauty products. Sunday, I will vote number 13, so Lula, in the hope that things will improve… »
Lula Where Bolsonaro ? Mercedes, who is walking her dog, has not yet made up her mind. She leans more towards Lula but above all wishes that “… the new president deals with poverty, health and education. And that he is a president worthy of the trust he will have received from the people “.
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The two candidates clashed for a final campaign debate on Friday evening on TV Globo, the most watched channel in the country. During this debate of more than more than two hours they accused each other constantly of lying, to the detriment of the exhibitions of concrete projects for the four years of mandate at stake in the ballot on Sunday.
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