Brazilian presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has exercised his right to vote in the second round of the presidential elections being held this Sunday in the town of Sao Bernardo do Campo, on the outskirts of Sao Paulo.
«Today is the most important day of my life,» said Lula from the Firmino Correia de Araújo State School, where supporters of the Workers’ Party (PT) candidate have gathered to cheer him on.
«Today the people are defining the model of life they want. The people need to rescue the people who are hungry», he added, while assuring that «democracy will be the winner», according to the newspaper ‘Estadao’.
Lula voted flanked by his vice-presidential candidate, Geraldo Alckmin; his wife, sociologist Rosangela da Silva; former senator Marina Silva; deputies André Janones and Guilherme Boulos; former minister Aloizio Mercadante and the Workers’ Party candidate for the government of Sao Paulo, Fernando Haddad.
This Sunday’s second round will not only determine who will be the new president and vice-president, as the governors of twelve Brazilian states, among them important political centers such as Sao Paulo, are still to be decided.
In the first round, Brazilians also completely chose the composition of the Chamber of Deputies and part of the Senate, with a predominantly conservative legislature where Bolsonaro’s party, the Liberal Party (PL), was the most voted option.
