A few minutes after the final result of the vote was known, the candidate of the Workers’ Party, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva tonight celebrated victory in the first round of the Brazilian elections and confirmed it was “certain”. It could be imposed in the ballot scheduled for October 30.
Lula da Silva spoke to his constituents after learning the results of Sunday’s election. Photo: EFE
Lula spoke just after 10 p.m. from his hideout in a hotel in downtown São Paulo, where he was accompanied by his wife “Ganga”, his deputy Geraldo Alcumen, former president Dilma Rousseff, and members of his party.
The candidate to run for the presidency of Brazil for the third time challenged President Jair Bolsonaro in a new debate and asserted that “all elections were in the second round” throughout history. We will win the elections. This is just an extension.”
“Excuse me, journalists, and allied parties, but we will have to work harder, we have to persuade Brazilian society, and persuade other political forces” before October 30, Lula said.
After the defeat on Sunday in San Pablo, the city where he began his political career, the former president said he hopes to turn around the opposite outcome. He stressed that “São Paulo will be facing the proposals of the community and I will do my best and I am sure that together we will win in Sao Paulo and we will win Brazil.”
Lula also called on his followers to gather on the traditional Avenida Paulista to celebrate and gain strength for the second term of the campaign. “Unfortunately for some, I have another thirty days of campaigning,” stressed the AKP candidate, who said, “You know our country is worse, the economy is worse, and we have to take that country back.”
“I like the campaign, I like the discussion with Brazilian society and it will be important because for the first time there will be a face-to-face discussion with the President of the Republic to see if he will continue to tell lies or if he will tell him the truth to the Brazilian people,” he stressed when he requested another meeting with Bolsonaro.
In this sense, he noted, “It’s a second chance because this discussion was not of much value, and this discussion had strange people.”
(With information from NA News Agency)
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