On Sunday there were long queues at Brazilian consulates in several Argentine cities. And especially in Buenos Aires, which is located in Lower Buenos Aires. They were waiting to vote in the Brazilian presidential election and the result was a collision with Luiz Inacio Lula da SilvaThat beat Jair Bolsonaro by about 34 points.
A total of 12,684 Brazilians residing in Argentina could vote. 7,444 votes were cast. Above them, the “Brazilian Coalition of Hope”, the leader of the PT, got the 63.5% (4,634 votes) while “For the good of Brazil”, from the current president, obtained the 29.1% (2,125 votes).
Only two other candidates are registered in the electoral court in Buenos Aires, while the Brazilian embassy and consulate here have not been allowed to report the election results.
On the one hand, unlike the results obtained in Brazil, where he finished in fourth place, the center-left Ciro Gomesof the Democratic Party of Labor, won the 3.4% (248 votes) and finished third.
Gomes was ahead Simone Tebbetthe right-wing senator of the Brazilian Democratic Movement, who in Argentina won the 2.6% (189 votes).
In total, there were five offices located throughout the country, in which 58% of the voters voted. In addition to valid grades, there were 78 empty and 73 null.
In the city of Buenos Aires, where long queues were seen at the diplomatic offices of Cerrito and Arroyo, Lula got 64.68% of the votes and Bolsonaro 28.04%.
From the beginning, the government of Alberto Fernández provided all the facilities in what was a Kirchnerism campaign openly for Lula da Silva.
While Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero has maintained permanent contact with Celso Amorim, former President Da Silva’s Foreign Minister and former Defense Minister, and is Lula’s contact with Alberto Fernández, the Patria Institute made a special open campaign here by recruiting grades, especially among Brazilian students.
A dozen militants traveled to Brazil this weekend for the think tank who reports to the vice president Cristina Kirchner. They traveled together with the former deputy María del Carmen “La Negra” Alarcón. Invited by the Supreme Electoral Court were the deputy Victoria Tolosa Paz and the head of the Cabinet of Cafiero, Luciana Tito. And, alone, the leader of the Unidad Nacional and former Banco Nación, Claudio Lozano, and Hugo Yasky, of the CTA, among others.
In the city of Córdoba, where Brazilians who also live in Jujuy, Salta, Catamarca, La Rioja, Tucumán and Santiago del Estero voted, there were 350 votes. Lula Da Silva won with 50.89% (172 votes) and Bolsonaro followed with 40.83% (138 votes).
Meanwhile, between San Juan and San Luis, there were 144 votes and Bolsonaro won with 55.40% (77 votes). Lula got 37.41% (52 votes).
Source: Clarin
