Brazil’s 2018 Election: Bolsonaro defeats Haddad to become President of Brazil
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Yeah he is going to win the second round smh. Brazil is about to elect president a man who makes Donald Trump look like Bill Clinton. 
october 28 if there is one
A lot of third party voters already saying they going to vote for Bolsonaro in the run off. The workers party scarred em for life
Brazil election results: runoff looms after far-right candidate fails to secure majority– live
Tom Phillips has been speaking to Brian Winter, a Brazil expert and the editor-in-chief of Americas Quarterly, who thinks Bolsonaro supporters will be feeling a “small taste of defeat” having just missed out on a first round victory.
But ultimately “this was a very strong result” for the man who is now far and away the favourite to become Brazil’s next president.
“Bolsonaro had colossal support in places like Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, throughout the south and centre-west and it makes him just a huge favourite to win in three weeks,” says Winter.
“The path for Haddad to close that gap looks almost impossible ... If you simply add Bolsonaro plus two-thirds of [fourth-placed candidate] Geraldo Alckmin’s votes, it’s over. After the result today it’s so easy to imagine how he’ll get to 50%, in the second round.
“This idea that Bolsonaro can save the country and make it safe for people to walk on the streets at night and tend the corruption in Brasilia and make a dent in 13m unemployed – that’s an idea most Brazilians now seem to have bought.”
Tom Phillips has been speaking to Brian Winter, a Brazil expert and the editor-in-chief of Americas Quarterly, who thinks Bolsonaro supporters will be feeling a “small taste of defeat” having just missed out on a first round victory.
But ultimately “this was a very strong result” for the man who is now far and away the favourite to become Brazil’s next president.
“Bolsonaro had colossal support in places like Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, throughout the south and centre-west and it makes him just a huge favourite to win in three weeks,” says Winter.
“The path for Haddad to close that gap looks almost impossible ... If you simply add Bolsonaro plus two-thirds of [fourth-placed candidate] Geraldo Alckmin’s votes, it’s over. After the result today it’s so easy to imagine how he’ll get to 50%, in the second round.
“This idea that Bolsonaro can save the country and make it safe for people to walk on the streets at night and tend the corruption in Brasilia and make a dent in 13m unemployed – that’s an idea most Brazilians now seem to have bought.”
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Here's the crazy part blacks/mulattos make up 50% or more of Brazil's population and there is a black/Portuguese woman running for President and she only got 3% of the vote today. 
Brazil environmentalist Marina Silva to run for president in 2018 | Reuters
She's leans towards the center, but is a huge environmentalist.
She's part of the Sustainability Network Party.
The fact that none of your Black American media has mentioned this woman tells you the disconnect. The real issue is if you talking about Bolsanaro being a racist Brazilian version of Trump, well blacks should lean towards a black candidate. Not to say that a black candidate is going to have a black agenda in mind, but here is an opportunity and seems to not have caught the attention of the blacks/mulattos or preta or whatever term you want to use
Marina Silva - Wikipedia
Brazil environmentalist Marina Silva to run for president in 2018 | Reuters
She's leans towards the center, but is a huge environmentalist.
She's part of the Sustainability Network Party.
The fact that none of your Black American media has mentioned this woman tells you the disconnect. The real issue is if you talking about Bolsanaro being a racist Brazilian version of Trump, well blacks should lean towards a black candidate. Not to say that a black candidate is going to have a black agenda in mind, but here is an opportunity and seems to not have caught the attention of the blacks/mulattos or preta or whatever term you want to use
Marina Silva - Wikipedia
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It seems like the PT losing is worth more than the lives of minorities.
Bernie and Stein voters can relate
Brazil election results: runoff looms after far-right candidate fails to secure majority– liveHere's the crazy part blacks/mulattos make up 50% or more of Brazil's population and there is a black/Portuguese woman running for President and she only got 3% of the vote today.
Brazil environmentalist Marina Silva to run for president in 2018 | Reuters
She's leans towards the center, but is a huge environmentalist.
She's part of the Sustainability Network Party.
The fact that none of your Black American media has mentioned this woman tells you the disconnect. The real issue is if you talking about Bolsanaro being a racist Brazilian version of Trump, well blacks should lean towards a black candidate. Not to say that a black candidate is going to have a black agenda in mind, but here is an opportunity and seems to not have caught the attention of the blacks/mulattos or preta or whatever term you want to use
Marina Silva - Wikipedia
'We start the campaign for victory tomorrow' – Haddad
Workers’ Party candidate, Fernando Haddad (C) speaks after the first round of the general elections in Sao Paulo. Photograph: Nelson Almeida/AFP/Getty Images
Fernando Haddad, who is sitting on 28.2% of the vote, has been tweeting. He thanked his family, his party and former president Lula, who is in prison for 12 years on corruption charges, for “your greatest leadership”.
Haddad said the campaign to defeat Bolsonaro in the second round begins tomorrow.
“We want to unite Brazil. It’s a different election than any of the others.”
Haddad says the election has put a lot at stake and he wants to face this debate “with a lot of respect, with a single weapon: the argument” and has vowed to “keep the bridges of the dialogue open”.
“We will defend Brazil and its people, especially the poorest people. I’ve always been on the side of freedom and democracy. I’m not going to give up my values.”
Haddad hinted at some kind of second round alliance tweeting that he wants to “keep the dialogue open” and had already spoken to three of the other candidates – Marina Silva, Ciro Gomes and Guilherme Boulos.
She's run several times. The brazilians I know have told me she's more of a talker thats only seen during election cycles. The Lula fiasco really did a number on the country, the politics arent as black and white as the US. Its going to be a number of "black and brown" people voting for Bolsonaro.Here's the crazy part blacks/mulattos make up 50% or more of Brazil's population and there is a black/Portuguese woman running for President and she only got 3% of the vote today.
Brazil environmentalist Marina Silva to run for president in 2018 | Reuters
She's leans towards the center, but is a huge environmentalist.
She's part of the Sustainability Network Party.
The fact that none of your Black American media has mentioned this woman tells you the disconnect. The real issue is if you talking about Bolsanaro being a racist Brazilian version of Trump, well blacks should lean towards a black candidate. Not to say that a black candidate is going to have a black agenda in mind, but here is an opportunity and seems to not have caught the attention of the blacks/mulattos or preta or whatever term you want to use
Marina Silva - Wikipedia
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Here's the crazy part blacks/mulattos make up 50% or more of Brazil's population and there is a black/Portuguese woman running for President and she only got 3% of the vote today.
Brazil environmentalist Marina Silva to run for president in 2018 | Reuters
She's leans towards the center, but is a huge environmentalist.
She's part of the Sustainability Network Party.
The fact that none of your Black American media has mentioned this woman tells you the disconnect. The real issue is if you talking about Bolsanaro being a racist Brazilian version of Trump, well blacks should lean towards a black candidate. Not to say that a black candidate is going to have a black agenda in mind, but here is an opportunity and seems to not have caught the attention of the blacks/mulattos or preta or whatever term you want to use
Marina Silva - Wikipedia
Thank God people aren't so obtuse to the point of voting for some evangelical neoliberal bytch just because she's black.
