We look with trepidation to the Brazilian election. According to election eve polls, far-right President Jair Bolsonaro looks likely to lose to left-wing candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (a former president, and commonly known as Lula).
At the time of writing, Lula has pulled just ahead. Bolsonaro initially held the lead, but the areas from which Lula’s Workers’ Party (PT) traditionally draws its highest levels of support are also the slowest to report — when PT last won in 2014, it didn’t pull ahead until hours after the count began.
Bolsonaro has long been miles behind in the polls, and has been claiming that the election will be subject to fraud for just about as long.
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