'We don't have a break. We are going to work hard,' said the leftist former president LulaOficial. 'And we have 28 more days.'
"We don't have a break. We are going to work hard," said the leftist former president."And we have 28 more days."Leftist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said late Sunday that"the campaign begins tomorrow" after he fell just shy of clearing the 50% threshold to win the closely watched and globally important Brazilian election outright, setting up an October 30 runoff against far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro.
"Tomorrow we will be on the streets to win the elections. We don't have a break. We are going to work hard," Lula said as the results showed a second round would be necessary. "I love campaigning. And we have 28 more days," Lula added."I love doing rallies, getting on a truck. And it will be the first opportunity to have a face-to-face debate with the current president. So that we can make comparisons between the Brazil he built and the Brazil we built.
On Sunday, Bolsonaro outperformed pre-election polls signaling that Lula had a chance to ride to an outright victory in the first round. The incumbent leader, who has presided over a
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