While the ultra-conservative president, of the Liberal Party (PL), achieved 51.06 million votes in Sunday’s elections. Therefore, Jair Bolsonaro needs to add some 6.7 million extra votes for the ballot.
Both candidates will look for those votes in the followers of those who came third and fourth: Simone Tebbetfrom the PMDB (centre right), and Cyrus Gomes of the PDT (centre-left). Each got 4.9 million votes and 3.6 million, respectively.
The set of other candidates for the presidency in Brazil achieved 1.4 million votes. In other words, in total, Lula da Silva and Jair Bolsonaro will dispute some 9.9 million votes, Valor Economico reported.
Thus, the former president needs to obtain 19% of the votes in dispute while the challenge for the ultra-conservative is much greater: 67%.
To this we must add that the abstention ratewhich in yesterday’s elections was 20%, tends to grow in the second rounds in Brazil, which would modify the number of votes required for the two rivals upwards.
Prior to the first round of elections, Lula focused his campaign on the request of the “helpful vote” to avoid prolonging the campaign until October 30. Observers estimate that this very week he will try to seal pacts with Gomes, who was a minister in his government, and Tebet.
Source: Ambito
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