Jair Bolsonaro becomes first sitting president in Brazil to lose re-election bid
Jair Bolsonaro becomes first sitting president in Brazil to lose re-election bid
Jair Bolsonaro misplaced the presidential runoff election to Lulu on Monday turning into the primary president for the reason that Nineteen Nineties to be voted out of office. As Bolsonaro become rejected on the ballot box, all presidents who tried a 2d time period earlier than him have been voted lower back in through the electorate.
Fernando Henrique Cardoso in 1998, Lula himself in 2006 and Dilma Rousseff in 2014 all had received a 2d 4-12 months time period. Electoral officers declared the election for Lula, who had fifty one percentage of the vote to forty nine percentage for Jair Bolsonaro.
Hardline far-proper chief Jair Bolsonaro additionally referred to as the “Trump of the Tropics” surged to victory 4 years in the past and become very famous however the vitriolic chief got here beneathneath hearthplace for his disastrous managing of the Covid pandemic which left greater than 680,000 useless in Brazil.
Under Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil noticed a susceptible economy, assaults on democratic establishments and the worst deforestation withinside the Amazon rainforest in 15 years. Many worry that Jair Bolsonaro won’t receive his defeat withinside the elections follwing his political function version former US president Donald Trump.
As the election consequences display a divided Brazil, Lula is about to stand big demanding situations from the day he assumes office.
