The Brazilians have elected a president. Partial results are coming

• Current President Jair Bolsonaro and former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, better known as Lula, face elections that will determine Brazil’s future.
• Lula won the first round of the election, which took place less than a month ago, but opinion polls before the second round gave him little advantage.
• The pre-election debate took place on Friday. Latin American media called her “ruthless.”
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Articles are updated with election results on a regular basis

Polling stations closed at 17 local time (21 in Poland).

Results from 50 percent. Election commissions indicate that Bolsonaro won with 50.30 per cent. Vote and Lula 49.70 percent. However, the trend so far shows that support for the current president is declining.

In the first round of elections, Lula da Silva won 48.4 percent of the vote. Authenticationwhile Jair Bolsonaro is 43.2 percent.

‘Fierce’, ‘fierce’, ‘tough on both sides’ – these adjectives are echoed in coverage of the last television debate before Sunday’s presidential election between Bolsonaro and Lula da Silva, who held the position in 2003-2010.

The two candidates met on Friday in front of the cameras of El Globo TV, which has the highest viewership in the country. Their debate, aimed primarily at winning over hesitant voters, became the main topic of media attention throughout Latin America.

Bolsonaro, who recently abandoned the topic of questioning the credibility of the electronic ballot box system, criticized some Brazilian media, for “not giving candidates equal access to their pages”.

“From the first minutes, from the moment the left-wing presidential candidate refused to have the current head of state sit next to him, I felt a lot of tension in the studio,” the Spanish news agency EFE reported from the last before. Discussing the election of both candidates.

On Saturday, the Latin American media cited the arguments of both sides in the TV debate: Lula mainly blamed his opponent, among others they are responsible for the suffering and impoverishment of the country’s population as a result of the inadequate strategy – in his opinion – to combat the coronavirus pandemic. According to the former leader, the virus led to 690,000 deaths. Brazilians.

President Bolsonaro, as he did throughout the election campaign, in turn undermined the integrity of Lula’s intentions, who was serving a prison sentenceBefore he was officially acquitted by the judiciary of corruption charges related to his presidency.