Bolsonaro "totally trusts" in the second round of the elections for the Presidency of Brazil

MADRID, 3 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The current president of Brazil and candidate in the country's elections, Jair Bolsonaro, has stated that he has "total confidence" in the second round in which he will have to face the leader of the Workers' Party, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Thus, Bolsonaro has celebrated the result he has achieved, since the polls predicted a sharp fall for the candidate and the victory of Lula da Silva even in the first round.

"Now it is total confidence," he assured, after emphasizing that he had overcome the "lies" of the research institutes, referring to the publications of the Datafolha company surveys.

With 97.07 percent of the votes counted, Lula da Silva, leader of the Workers' Party, emerged as the winner of the first round, obtaining 47.88 percent of the ballots -- more than 54, 8 million votes--. Meanwhile, the current outgoing president and leader of the Liberal Party, Bolsonaro, has obtained 43.68 percent --more than 49.7 million voters--, according to data released by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.

The difference between the two main candidates is reduced to just over four percentage points, as indicated by the count of practically all the ballot boxes.

In the first statement made by Bolsonaro, who heads the Liberal Party, after the results of this Sunday's elections, he has indicated that he sees a sense of change in the country that could be negative for the country.

"I understand that there is a desire for change on the part of the population, but there are certain changes that could be worse," he declared, according to the newspaper 'O Globo'.

The president has also asserted that he is open to negotiating with those candidates who have not made it to the second round. "The doors are open for conversation," he declared, after adding that the voters of Simone Tebet and Ciro Gomes "are much more understanding" of their ideals than those of their rival.

Simone Tebet, in third place, got 4.22 percent of the votes. For his part, Ciro Gomes, in fourth place, obtained 3.06 percent. The rest of the candidates have not exceeded 1 percent of the ballots.