A clear-cut political earthquake hit Brazil, which in the presidential consultations rewards the candidate Jair Bolsonaro who collects a majority of votes but does not exceed the threshold of the 50 percent of votes. So he will have to see it in the run-off with the Pt candidate, Fernando Haddad, the leader who replaced Lula in the Brazilian presidential race.
The strong man of the country, the former Army captain, was awarded by the voters with 47,60% of votes, plus 43 millions of consensus on 147 registered in the electoral registers, still reaching percentages that no one would have expected only a few months ago .
The next 28 will once again be confronted in the final challenge. It will not be easy for the former Minister of Education in the Lula and Rousseff governments and professor of Political Science at the University of São Paulo. The success of Bolsonaro will force him to make new alliances with the other candidates: Ciro Gomes, of the PDT who collected 12,50 and Geraldo Ackmin, of the PSDB, who stopped at the 4,97.
People went to vote en masse. The abstention was of the 22 percent, registered above all in the more isolated and poor North-West states. Resignation and disillusionment. But the electronic vote allowed to know the results three hours after the closing of the seats. The first official data, announced shortly after yesterday's 19, appeared resounding. Jair Bolsonaro stood out on top with the 49,02 percent. He was one step away from the net victory in the first round. A percentage that has shrunk with time and the inflow of votes that came mainly from the Northeast States, the electoral bases of the Pt. In the end it settled around the 47 percent, while Haddad recovered consents placing on the 27 percent.
Now the negotiations begin, which see millions of votes at stake. Haddad has already said that "will open to all covenants, none excluded" while Bolsonaro celebrates if he will be elected will be the first former military to return to the leadership of Brazil 10 years after the end of the dictatorship.