Brazil's Oct. 2 vote pits 76-year-old leftist ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, known as Lula, against the far-right incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro, a former congressman and army captain.
Like his political ally former U.S. president Donald Trump, Bolsonaro has consistently sought to undermine the credibility of state institutions, calling Brazil's widely respected voting infrastructure "a farce.". "Only God will get me out.", unless the computerized system used by Brazilian authorities is replaced by printed ballots.Felipe Ferreira, a Rio de Janeiro-based data scientist, clarified that Brazil's electronic voting machines are secure systems.
Critics say it was a period marked by graft at the highest levels of government. Lula was jailed in 2018 on corruption and money laundering charges and spent more than a year in prison before his conviction was annulled by a Supreme Court judge.The former union leader, who lost a finger during an accident while working at a factory before entering politics, maintains the charges were political, launched by a partisan judge who later became Bolsonaro's justice minister.
"He is trying to avoid being seen as a radical or a populist," said Richmond, the London researcher. "That's very strategic, trying to win voters in smaller towns … it can also stunt his charisma a bit."Branding himself as a tough-talking political outsider, Bolsonaro won power four years ago in the wake of a massive corruption scandal involving the state oil company, and anger over a grinding recession after the commodity boom went bust.
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