Long queues formed at Brazilian consulates around the world this morning, with a record turnout of Brazilians living abroad voting for the second round of the presidential election.
In Asia and Oceania, preliminary results confirmed the trends in the first round. In South Korea, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won by 126 votes to 70 for President Jair Bolsonaro. In Australia, the data point to 2,970 votes for Lula versus 1688 for Bolsonaro. For example, at the Brazilian consulate in Sydney, Lula received 61% of the vote.
In New Zealand, too, Lula won by 353 votes. Bolsonaro is left with 132.
But Bolsonaro won in Japan. In Nagoya, the president received 84% of the vote, about 3,400. In Singapore, Bolsonaro won by 230 votes to Lula’s 123. In Indonesia, the president won by 32 votes to 15 for the PT candidate.
In the first round, Lula added 138,000 votes, representing 47% of the support abroad. Bolsonaro is left with 41%, 122,000 votes.
The overseas elections in 2022 go down in history as the process with the highest participation of Brazilians since the start of the elections for the citizens of the world. About 700,000 Brazilians registered to vote, which is double the volume recorded in 2014.
In places like Lisbon, voters queued up late at night. It was still dark in Paris when the first Brazilians lined up to vote.
This year, as UOL announced privately before the first round, Itamaraty reduced the number of polling stations, claiming that the system used in 2018 to expand cities with polling stations has not had a positive review by all Brazilian consulates abroad. UOL asked which consulates did not approve the initiative. But Itamaraty never replied.
In the first round, queues of up to three hours were recorded in cities such as Paris, Zurich and others, while tensions between different political groups in places like Lisbon or Geneva led to exchanges of insults among fans and even calls to the police.
source: Noticias
