Lula da Silva will be the new President of Brazil 50.90% of the votes were received, the campaign to end corruption in the election field was launched

 Lula da Silva will be the new president of Brazil, the largest country in Latin America. He has defeated the incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro. Lula belongs to the Left Workers' Party. The second round of voting for the presidential election took place on 30 October. Lula da Silva got 50.90% while Bolsonaro got 49.10% of the votes.

According to the Brazilian constitution, a candidate must secure at least 50% of the vote to win an election. In the first round of voting held last month, Lula got 48.4% while Bolsonaro got 43.23% of the vote.

Lula left the presidency due to corruption

Lula da Silva campaigned to end corruption in the election field. He said that corruption increased during Bolsonaro's era. By the way, Lula has also been president and he had to step down due to corruption.

Now the eyes of the world are on Bolsonaro reaction

After the election of the President, the eyes of the whole world are now on Bolsonaro and his supporters. Bolsonaro had already made it clear that if he lost the election, he would follow the path of former US President Donald Trump and would not accept the results.

Now after his defeat, the danger of violence in the country has increased. A huge police force has been deployed. Bolsonaro supporters were roaming freely with weapons in many places despite orders not to carry weapons within 100 meters of polling stations. He was engaged in threatening the voters.

Politicians were campaigning wearing bullet proof jackets

This time political hatred in Brazil increased so much that both Bolsonaro and Lula were seen campaigning wearing bullet proof jackets. Recently a Lula supporter was stabbed to death by a supporter of President Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro was even attacked during the campaign in the last election.

Actually, gang culture in Brazil is the reason for the high crime here. During elections, big political parties hire these gangs to spread violence and make voters in their favor. More than 250 incidents of political violence took place during the election campaign itself. In these, more than 2000 people were also arrested.

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