The margin of victory is tight enough to sow doubt. With six hours now on the clock since Brazil’s official electoral body called it for Lula, we haven’t heard a word from Jair Bolsonaro and according to latest reports, neither have his own ministers. However, pro-Bolsonaro truckers have already called for a national strike to protest a result they are calling fixed. The way the international press and politicos are reacting make this election sound like a done deal, but don’t be so sure out there. It could become an interesting week of politics in Brazil and the ball is now in the right court.
Perhaps Jair speaks today and gives us an October surprise as he rejects the result of the election… a prelude for the coming US mid term fraud.
Perhaps Jair speaks today and gives us an October surprise as he rejects the result of the election… a prelude for the coming US mid term fraud.
Bring your personal agenda to a post about Brazil, why don’t you? You only got a hammer, it looks like a nail. So I’ll do the work, but don’t be surprised when the rest ignore you.
If you had left out just the final word of your comment, you may have had a point. I’d been listening to news on this (NPR, I think?) and they had been saying that Jair and his supporters had already been laying the groundwork for the “if we lose, the election was stolen” BS.
If you lose, blah, blah, blah, will you accept the results of an election, they all do it, or rather the ‘news’ says they do it. Who even cares who wins – the bureaucrats run everything anyway*. At least in Brasil they managed to report the results by the next morning instead of dragging it out for weeks.
*Except in Yes, Minister!
Check out this link (political humor, nothing tricky).
https://twitter.com/bloggingsbyboz/status/1587027740808585216
Hmmmmmm …. I see that Lula is a WEF member ….. little wonder why the Brazilians are suspicious …..
https://www.weforum.org/people/luiz-inacio-lula-da-silva
Brazil is less suspicious of Lula than of Jair. Or perhaps you don’t understand how elections work.
I admit; … i dont know how electronic voting systems can be hack/tamper-proofed yet – that ensures a result both parties can live with.
If the Repubs sweep the mid-terms … i’ll bet Dollars-to-donuts; Democrats will be screaming “stolen election”
Hoping his uniformed buds prefer a peaceful life, however, his pre-election rhetoric and his refusal to accept defeat and congratulate Lula is deliberate encouragement to his supporters to cause mayhem on the streets, throttle the economy, and justify his uniformed buds to intervene. The playbook is obvious. Eight weeks to find out whether democracy survives in Brazil.