Trump claims that Bolsonaro has reached the second round of the elections in Brazil

MADRID, 4 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The former president of the United States Donald Trump has claimed this Monday that the current Brazilian president and presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro has reached the second round of the elections in the South American country.

"Very happy to have helped a great person and leader to get into the difficult to achieve, with other conservative candidates and certain difficult rules and regulations, to run for president of Brazil," Trump celebrated on the social network Truth Social, collected by The Hill newspaper.

"The voters made a great decision to give such a strong backing to the brilliant and hard-working current president, Jair Bolsonaro. Now, for the sake of Brazil and its future greatness, they have to take Jair to the finish line, against a left-wing socialist." radical, on October 30. Let's go Bolsonaro!", added the former president.

After the results of the counted vote, Trump congratulated Bolsonaro for "greatly surpassing the inaccurate polls of the media", referring to the polls of the Datafolha company that gave a wide distance to the former president and candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva against Bolsonaro. These studies even predicted a victory for Lula in the first round.

However, the count showed that Lula would have won by five percentage points, receiving 48 percent of the vote against 43 percent for Bolsonaro. In this way, both will have to face a second round on October 30, since neither of them exceeded 50 percent.