Bolsonaro and Lula get up early to cast their vote in the Brazilian presidential elections

MADRID, 2 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, and former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are already casting their votes in the presidential elections that the South American country is holding this Sunday with the former president as the clear favorite.

After depositing his ballot in a school in Rio de Janeiro, Bolsonaro has been convinced that he will win in the first round and that the elections will take place without problems.

"I am sure that they will be clean elections and that we will win with 60 percent of the votes," he assured in comments collected by 'Estadao'.

For his part, Lula made an appearance at the electoral college of the Firmino Correia de Araújo School, in Sao Bernardo do Campo, in Sao Paulo. After the vote, which is still underway, Lula will give a brief press conference and will accompany the counting of votes in a hotel in the central region of the São Paulo capital.

More than 150 million Brazilians are summoned to settle one of the most polarized elections remembered in the country, but at the same time one with the predictably clearer results, as revealed by the polls that have not questioned the victory for months. of former president Lula, who could even win in the first round.

Since the candidate of the Workers' Party (PT) recovered his political rights after his sentences were annulled, there has been no poll that has not put him back in the Planalto Palace twelve years later.

Aware of this, the candidate for re-election for the Liberal Party (PL), Jair Bolsonaro, has focused his campaign on questioning the Brazilian electoral system and remembering the past with his rival's Justice, while facing a pronounced drop in his popularity, always in question, although even more so after his management of the pandemic.

Brazil will decide its future at a time when it has to deal with record inflation rates, inequality from previous times, unemployment, and the ravages of the pandemic, while there is fear that Bolsonaro will not recognize the results of the elections, after he has been appealing numerous times to the Army and questioning the Supreme Court.