Supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro say the candidate is Queen Elizabeth II. The small demonstration he made in front of the Brazilian ambassador’s residence on the occasion of his visit to London, where he attended Elizabeth’s funeral, may be an example of what will happen in the elections. Voting in the British capital on October 2. The confusion created by an estimated 150-strong group intimidating journalists and protesters protesting the current government necessitated the intervention of the local police.
Home to Europe’s second largest expatriate community, the UK has a record number of voters registered to run for president. About 35,000 Brazilians living in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will register to vote.
It is distributed in 44 ballot boxes. Voting will take place only in London, at a school in Hammersmith. Those living outside the capital, or even outside the UK, will need to travel to the polling point.
To ensure security in the area, the consulate will be recruiting reinforcements from the school’s own staff, but the Metropolitan Police have also been alerted and must send men to make sure everything goes smoothly out the door. Even the city’s transport system was put on alert.
In the last election, there were approximately 26,000 enrollees, representing a significant increase over the previous election (2014), when 14,000 were able to attend. Any voter in good standing and registered to vote in the UK will be able to do so.
travel to vote
Gloria Neves, a yoga teacher who has lived in Newcastle in the north-east of the country for 11 years, will drive the required 464 kilometers to vote in more than five hours.
“I always emphasize that. Every four years, I exercise my civil right to express what we think and want for our country,” he says.
Glória regrets the polarization that has dominated the political scene in the country and says she still doesn’t know who to vote for in the first round.
“I think it’s difficult. I have no intention of voting. What I’m hoping from all this is that we don’t let this democratic practice die because there are so few countries that have an obligation. We do it, we consciously enlighten it, which is missing more and more,” he observes.
Bolsonaro ‘won’ in London in 2018
Bolsonaro won the last election in London. In the first round, he received 4,797 out of 9,353 valid votes, with 51.29% of the votes. At that time, despite the much higher subscriber count, 9,715 people actually went to vote.
In the second round, the current president received 61.38% of the valid votes, and the number of blank and blank votes also increased.
The second round was marked by confusion. Voting took place at the Brazilian embassy building in central London. Mutual insults and nicknames between supporters of Bolsonaro, who was affiliated with the PSL at the time, and Fernando Haddad, then the Labor Party candidate, prompted the police to intervene.
source: Noticias
