Voters, analysts and the candidates themselves have framed the election as an existential choice, less about policy than about the very character of the nation.
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s deeply polarizing presidential election, which has pitted populists from opposite ends of the political spectrum — right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro and left-wing former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva — will go to a second round after no candidate secured enough votes Sunday to claim outright victory.
Lula, 76, running on a campaign of nostalgia with appeals to the working class, has framed the contest as a test of the strength of Brazil’s young victory. Front-runners often reach their ceiling in the first round. And four more weeks of campaigning will likely boost Bolsonaro, who could benefit from an improving economy and falling unemployment and inflation.
“I don’t believe in polls,” said Daniel Silveira, a federal congressman who has been accused of by law enforcement officials of attacks against democracy. “The streets say it all. Polls say nothing.” The election in recent weeks has shaped up into a contest of may the least-disdained win. Both candidates have messianic followings, but each carries extraordinary political baggage.
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