If on the one hand the party could be heard, with many tears of happiness through it, on the other it was the silence of Jair Bolsonaro that stood out. On the night the election results dictated Lula da Silva’s victory, with 50.9% of the vote, the still Brazilian president (49.1%) did not react to the defeat, after he cast doubts during the campaign about alleged electoral fraud and the possibility of not accepting the results. After the PT candidate’s victory was confirmed, Bolsonaro refused to listen to the ministers even over the phone.
Other than not admitting defeat (yet), there is no indication that Bolsonaro called Lula da Silva to congratulate him, as is usually the case. At least on election night, he didn’t call the PT candidate. “Anywhere in the world, the defeated president would have already proclaimed and recognized victory,” said Lula da Silva during the victory speech.
After Lula da Silva’s victory in the second round of the election was made official and he will thus become president of Brazil again – he will serve a third term – Jair Bolsonaro isolated himself in the Planalto da Alvorada, the official residence of the head of state. , in Brasília, and said nothing about the election results.
A public response to the electoral defeat was expected, but what was heard was the silence of Bolsonaro, who reportedly spoke on the phone with his vice presidential candidate, Braga Netto, after confirming Lula’s victory, Folha de São Paulo said. .
The president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Alexandre de Moraes, informed Bolsonaro, as he did with Lula da Silva, of the final results, and was attended by the still president with “extreme courtesy and thanked him,” Moraes said. , quoted by Folha.
Bolsonaro, who chose to stay in the official residence after the vote, even refused to meet the ministers in person and by phone. According to the newspaper, the president’s aide Mauro César Cid warned ministers on election night that Bolsonaro had gone to sleep. The lights of Alvorada Planalto went out at 22:06 (1:06 in Lisbon).
Before that, after the vote, Bolsonaro spent the afternoon in the official residence next to his son, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ), one of the campaign coordinators.
Bolsonaro opted for silence on the night of Lula’s victory, but his supporters stood outside the Planalto waiting for a response from the defeated candidate. They eventually demobilized after being told there would be no statement from Bolsonaro.
Other voices were heard in place of Bolsonaro’s, such as Arthur Lira (PP-AL), one of the first to acknowledge Lula’s victory. “The will of the majority expressed in the polls must never be contested and we will make progress in building a fair sovereign country with fewer inequalities,” said the deputy, an ally of Bolsonaro.
The Attorney General of the Republic, Augusto Aras, nominated by the president, congratulated Lula on his victory and congratulated Bolsonaro on his “participation in the democratic dispute”. Statements from the president’s allies that seem to remove the challenge to the results.
Former judge and former justice minister Sérgio Moro, in turn, also reacted to the victory of Lula da Silva, who had convicted him in court, saying that “democracy is like that”.
The now-elected senator for the state of Paraná and known for acting as a judge of the first instance in the Lava Jato operation and condemning dozens of politicians, including the candidate and former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, added that the “result of an election cannot overcome the responsibility one has with Brazil.
Moro, known for serving as trial judge in the Lava Jato operation and condemning dozens of politicians, including candidate and former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, also added that he will sit in opposition by 2023, promising that he will “always be on the side of what is right”.
Brazilian deputy Carla Zambelli, a very close ally of the president, Jair Bolsonaro, for her part, chased a man with a gun in his hands on a street in São Paulo on Saturday, acknowledged defeat in the presidential election and said she would the “greater opposition than Lula ever thought he would have”.
“The dream of freedom of more than 51 million Brazilians is still alive,” added the deputy, who could lose her mandate because of an electoral authority rule banning the transport of weapons in the 24 hours before and in the 24 hours after the voting day. .
The governor of Minas Gerais, who decided to support Jair Bolsonaro’s candidacy for the presidency after his victory in the state on October 2, also wished “good luck to the elected president”.
“I will be open to dialogue so that Brazil can grow with work, honesty and respect,” stressed the head of state, which is the country’s second largest electoral college and that Lula won by a margin of less than 50,000 votes.
with Lusa
Source: DN
