Brazil's top two presidential candidates were neck-and-neck in a highly polarized election, which pits incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro against his political nemesis, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Brazil's top two presidential candidates will face each other in a runoff vote after neither got enough support to win outright Sunday in an election to decide if the country returns a leftist to the helm of the world's fourth-largest democracy or keeps the far-right incumbent in office.
Carlos Melo, a political science professor at Insper University in Sao Paulo, said:"It is too soon to go too deep, but this election shows Bolsonaro's victory in 2018 was not a hiccup." While voting earlier Sunday, Marley Melo, a 53-year-old trader in capital Brasilia, sported the yellow of the Brazilian flag, which Bolsonaro and his supporters have coopted for demonstrations. Melo said he is once again voting for Bolsonaro, who met his expectations, and he doesn't believe the surveys that show him trailing.A slow economic recovery has yet to reach the poor, with 33 million Brazilians going hungry despite higher welfare payments.
But he is also remembered for his administration's involvement in vast corruption scandals that entangled politicians and business executives. Others, like Marialva Pereira, are more forgiving. She said she would vote for the former president for the first time since 2002.
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