Senator and presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro This Monday he celebrated “the overwhelming majority” that the right and the extreme right have achieved in the Brazilian Parliament after the presidential and legislative elections on Sunday.
Senator and presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro This Monday he celebrated “the overwhelming majority” that the right and the extreme right have achieved in the Brazilian Parliamentafter the presidential and legislative elections on Sunday.
“The overwhelming majority that we achieved in Congress will return the legal security that the country needs so much to grow,” declared on his social networks the eldest son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, winner of the first round of the presidential elections, with 47.03% of the votes.
The senator, a candidate for the Liberal Party (PL), was almost two points ahead of the current ruler, the progressive Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (45.16%). Both will compete for the Presidency in the second round on October 25.
Flávio Bolsonaro’s result, which no poll anticipated, was also reflected in the legislative elections.
The PL, led by Jair Bolsonaro, who is serving a lengthy prison sentence under house arrest for attempted coup d’état, emerged stronger and will be the leading force in the Senate, with 28 of the 81 seats.
One of them will be occupied by Michelle Bolsonaro, Jair’s wife, and another by Carlos Bolsonaro, Flávio’s brother.
Far behind were Lula’s Workers’ Party (PT), with nine senators, and the center-right Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB), with eight.
The president of Brazil and candidate for reelection for the Workers’ Party (PT), Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (right), and the candidate for the Liberal Party (PL), Flavio Bolsonaro. (Photo by Pablo PORCIUNCULA and Mauro PIMENTEL / AFP)./ PABLO PORCIUNCULA MAURO PIMENTEL
In this way, the PL will become, as of February 2027, when the next legislature begins, the largest partisan bench in the Upper House since the promulgation of the 1988 Constitution.
The Senate has gained notable relevance in this electoral campaign, since Flávio Bolsonaro has defended the dismissal of several Supreme Court judges whom he considers enemies of his family and to do so he needs the support of two-thirds of the senators.
The panorama in the Chamber of Deputies is similar. According to an official projection, the PL will be the first minority in the Lower House, with 121 of the 513 deputies, 24 more than in the 2022 elections.
The PT, in coalition with the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB) and the Green Party (PV), would add 88, six more than four years ago.
“Thank you, God! Thank you, Brazil! The country demonstrated at the polls for change and for the future. Not only in the Presidency of the Republic, but also in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies,” said Flávio Bolsonaro.
“The federal Legislature is configured for a president like Flávio Bolsonaro! Congratulations also to the elected governors and regional deputies,” he added.
Already in the runoff campaign, which resumes this Monday, Flávio promised to “always put the people above any partisan issue.”
“The effective fight against narcoterrorism has to be done together with governors and mayors. There are just a few days left until Brazil’s rescue! Let’s go with everything!” he exclaimed.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his rival Flávio Bolsonaro face each other on Sunday, October 4, in the first round of the presidential elections in Brazil, which will decide whether the main Latin American economy remains to the left or joins the right-wing wave in the region encouraged by Donald Trump. (AFP)
