{"id":1718193,"date":"2022-10-31T06:30:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T10:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1718193"},"modified":"2022-10-31T10:49:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T14:49:10","slug":"lula-wins-brazilian-election-bolsonaro-does-not-concede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lula-wins-brazilian-election-bolsonaro-does-not-concede\/","title":{"rendered":"Lula Wins Brazilian Election, Bolsonaro Does Not Concede"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flula-wins-brazilian-election-bolsonaro-does-not-concede%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1718193&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/31104909\/3bcd084493f35ec40870b8ce5751597b\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>By Lisandra Paraguassu and Anthony Boadle<\/p>\n<p>SAO PAULO\/BRASILIA (Reuters) &#8211; Brazil&#8217;s outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro had on Monday yet to concede defeat in the presidential election, raising fears the far-right nationalist might contest the victory of his leftist rival, former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of jubilant supporters took to the streets of Sao Paulo on Sunday night to celebrate a stunning comeback for Lula, a 77-year-old former metalworker who served two terms as president from 2003 to 2010. His electoral win follows a spell in prison for corruption convictions that were later annulled.<\/p>\n<p>Bolsonaro left his residence on Monday morning and headed to the presidential palace, but had still not made any public comments. He is the first Brazilian incumbent to lose a presidential election. Lula has vowed to overturn his legacy, including pro-gun policies and weak protection of the Amazon rainforest.<\/p>\n<p>Pitching the contest as a battle for democracy after his rival made baseless claims the electoral system was open to fraud, Lula promised to unite his deeply divided country and celebrated what he called his &#8220;resurrection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will govern for 215 million Brazilians, and not just for those who voted for me,&#8221; Lula said at his campaign headquarters. &#8220;There are not two Brazils. We are one country, one people, one great nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) declared Lula won 50.9% of votes, against 49.1% for Bolsonaro. Lula&#8217;s inauguration is scheduled for Jan. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Graphic: Lula wins Brazilian election https:\/\/graphics.reuters.com\/BRAZIL-ELECTION\/myvmomjrzvr\/graphic.jpg<\/p>\n<p>Lula&#8217;s win consolidates a new &#8220;pink tide&#8221; in Latin America, and means the left will govern all the region&#8217;s major economies after a string of electoral successes from Mexico to Argentina in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Argentine President Alberto Fernandez hailed &#8220;a new era for the history of Latin America. A time of hope and future that begins today.&#8221; Fernandez announced a trip to neighbor Brazil on Monday to meet Lula.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations poured in from foreign leaders including U.S. President Joe Biden, who called the election &#8220;free, fair and credible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s Xi Jinping, Russia&#8217;s Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron all extended congratulations.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, Bolsonaro&#8217;s continued silence sparked fears that the handover of power may not be entirely clean.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-Bolsonaro truckers blocked highways across Brazil, with at least 70 full or partial blockades according to the Federal Highway Police. Truckers are one of Bolsonaro&#8217;s key constituencies, and they have been known to cause economic chaos in Brazil when they shut down highways.<\/p>\n<p>Sources told Reuters that there were no confirmed reports of disruption of grain shipments in Mato Grosso, Brazil&#8217;s biggest farm state, though some roads there had been blocked.<\/p>\n<p>A source in the Bolsonaro campaign told Reuters the president would not make public remarks until Monday. The Bolsonaro campaign did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if he will call or if he will recognize my victory,&#8221; Lula said, in a speech to supporters on Sao Paulo&#8217;s Paulista Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Markets braced for a volatile week ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil&#8217;s realwas up as much as 0.5% against the dollar after falling as much as 2% earlier in the session, while the Bovespa rose 0.3% after sinking 2% in early trading.<\/p>\n<p>Investors waited eagerly for news of Lula&#8217;s cabinet and the risk of Bolsonaro questioning results.<\/p>\n<p>One close Bolsonaro ally, lawmaker Carla Zambelli, in an apparent nod to the results, wrote on Twitter, &#8220;I PROMISE you, I will be the greatest opposition that Lula has ever imagined.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The vote was a rebuke for the fiery far-right populism of Bolsonaro, who emerged from the back benches of Congress to forge a conservative coalition but lost support as Brazil ran up one of the worst death tolls of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>International election observers said Sunday&#8217;s election was conducted efficiently. One observer told Reuters that military auditors did not find any flaws in integrity tests they did of the voting system.<\/p>\n<p>Lula&#8217;s has vowed a return to state-driven economic growth and social policies that helped lift millions out of poverty during two terms as president. He also promises to combat destruction of the Amazon rainforest, now at a 15-year high, and make Brazil a leader in global climate talks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These were four years of hatred, of negation of science,&#8221; said Ana Valeria Doria, 60, a doctor in Rio de Janeiro who celebrated with a drink on Sunday night. &#8220;It won&#8217;t be easy for Lula to manage the division in this country. But for now it&#8217;s pure happiness.&#8221;A former union leader born into poverty, Lula&#8217;s presidency was marked by a commodity-driven economic boom and he left office with record popularity.<\/p>\n<p>However, his Workers Party was later tarred by a deep recession and a record-breaking corruption scandal that jailed him for 19 months on bribery convictions, which were overturned by the Supreme Court last year.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Anthony Boadle and Ricardo Brito in Brasilia, Brian Ellsworth, Ana Mano, Gabriel Araujo and Lisandra Paraguassu in Sao Paulo; Writing by Frank Jack Daniel, Editing by Brad Haynes, Angus MacSwan and Frank Jack Daniel)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lisandra Paraguassu and Anthony BoadleSAO PAULO\/BRASILIA (Reuters) &#8211; Brazil&#8217;s outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro had on Monday yet to concede defeat in the presidential election, raising fears the far-right nationalist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1718196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1718193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1718196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}