After a close vote count, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took the lead in the Brazilian presidential elections, reaching 45.74% of the preferences and surpassing the current head of state, Jair Bolsonaro, who until the last update maintained the advantage, and now it reaches 45.51%, with 70% of the voting machines. as reported by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) on its website.
After narrowing the results in the vote count, the head of state is far from reaching the 50 percent that might give him the direct election in the first round. In the event that the scenario holds and if no candidate obtains more than half of the votes, excluding blank and null votes, the first two will meet in a second round on October 30.
After Bolsonaro and Lula, they are followed by the candidate of the Brazilian Democratic Movement, Simone Tebet, with 4.50%; and the candidate for the Democratic Labor Party (PDT), Ciro Gomes, who is in fourth place, with 3.08% of the votes.
More than 156 million Brazilians are called to the polls this Sunday, October 2, in which, in addition to appointing the new President of the Republic, they must elect the rulers of the 27 states of the country, as well as the complete renovation of the Chamber of Deputies, part of the Senate and the representatives of the state legislative assemblies.
