The former Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010), of the Workers’ Party (PT, left), received the second spherical of the final elections held at the moment, Sunday, in Brazil and was elected president for a four-year time period, which can start on January 1, 2023.
According to figures from the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Lula da Silva was victorious by acquiring greater than 60 million votes, 50.89 % of the legitimate votes, beating the present president Jair Bolsonaro, from the Liberal Party (PL, proper), who was looking for reelection, who obtained greater than 58 million, 49.11 % when 99.74 % of the sections have been counted.
This is the smallest distinction within the definition of a presidential dispute within the second spherical in Brazilian historical past.
Last Oct. 2, within the first electoral spherical, Lula da Silva obtained greater than 48 % of the legitimate votes, in opposition to greater than 43 % for the present president.
In a polarized election between two antagonistic proposals for the way forward for Latin America’s largest economic system, Lula da Silva received by a narrower margin than anticipated, with the huge assist of voters within the northeast, the poorest area of the nation.
His return to energy represents a restoration of political management, after spending greater than a yr in jail between 2018 and 2019, as a result of a controversial conviction that the Supreme Court would later overturn.
At 77, the previous commerce unionist can have the chance to control Brazil for the third time and resume his challenge to broaden the nation’s worldwide projection with a common international coverage by way of pleasant relations with all nations.
Lula da Silva will return to the Presidency with an agenda of sturdy social content material, such because the return of the coverage of an actual enhance within the minimal wage and the strengthening of state-owned corporations, along with the struggle in opposition to starvation and poverty.
In a message to voters final Friday night time, the previous president mentioned that the primary job of his future authorities could be to provoke a strategy of nationwide pacification for the reconstruction of the nation.
In the final days of campaigning, he issued the Charter for the Brazil of Tomorrow, with the rules that can information his subsequent administration.
“The first measures of our government will be to free 33 million people from hunger and more than 100 million Brazilians from poverty. Democracy will only be true when the entire population has access to a dignified life, without exclusions,” the doc states.
In a spirit just like that of his two earlier phrases, the petista chief will search to reconcile consideration to social calls for with an financial coverage that mixes state motion and personal initiative, with environmental sustainability.
“It is possible to combine fiscal responsibility, social responsibility, and sustainable development, and that is what we are going to do, following the trends of the world’s major economies,” the doc states.
The platform additionally advocates the reindustrialization of Brazil, by way of a nationwide technique towards the data economic system.
“We will initiate the digital transition and bring Brazilian industry into the 21st century, with an industrial policy that supports innovation, stimulates public-private cooperation, strengthens science and technology, and guarantees access to financing at adequate costs,” he mentioned.
Lula da Silva additionally promised to “break isolation and resume a successful foreign policy” to broaden international commerce and technological cooperation and ” promote fairer and extra democratic relations between nations.”
“We will resume a sovereign, haughty and active foreign policy, promoting democratic dialogue and respecting the self-determination of peoples”, emphasizing the restoration of regional integration, Mercosur, and different Latin American initiatives.
He additionally intends to strengthen the dialogue with the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), the European Union, and the United States.