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The immense silence of the cemetery witnessed an unthinkable political synthesis.

"

Lula, thief, steal my heart

!"

Lula, thief, you stole my heart

.

The song of a group of young people sounded at two in the morning on Sunday in the area surrounding the Sao Paulo Cemetery, a must for those returning from a night out on the winding and steep streets of Vila Madalena.

That Lula is a thief is what the voters of Jair Bolsonaro maintain, a hard rightist who governed the country for the last four years and was seeking re-election this Sunday.

That he stole their hearts is what those who yearn for his return to the Planalto Palace to put an end to the "Brazil Asylum" feel, as defined by

Carta Capital

magazine in one of its latest issues.

Decision in the hands of the 156 million Brazilians summoned to the polls.

"Tonight there will be many people who will not sleep in Brazil," he told

EL MUNDO

, already on his way to the early hours of Sunday.

Ricardo Guimaraes, a 44-year-old doctor who is horrified by the possible return of leftist Lula to power, but feels that Bolsonaro often goes too far when he opens his mouth.

Conclusion: he will vote for Simone Tebet, the candidate of the moderate center right of the traditional Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB).

Guimaraes shows a yellow piece of paper on which he wrote down a series of figures.

Before approaching the urn he will place one of his fingers on a machine.

One of the members of the table will say his name, he will confirm that he is that person and will enter to vote alone, marking the succession of figures.

If the first finger fails, there are records of five others to certify that it is he who votes.

Brazil, thus, has 936 million fingerprints on file to identify its voters.

Guimaraes is dressed in black and gray, and he is not the only one.

The streets of Pinheiros, an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Sao Paulo, are a barrage of blacks, grays, and browns.

They are following the advice of the last few days throughout Brazil:

"Don't wear red or green-yellow!"

.

The red identifies the followers of the Workers' Party (PT), of Lula, and the green-yellow, colors of the Brazilian flag, those of Bolsonaro.

Exhibiting those colors, warn the most prudent, is to incite the violence of the adversary in a country that today is a political and social pressure cooker.

Erika, a 30-year-old plastic artist, is at a Pinheiros polling station wearing a furiously red sweater and earrings.

Her one-year-old son also wears red clothes.

Aren't you afraid?

"I dress in red because I don't want to accept that they take away my freedom of political expression. That can't be. Just as it doesn't seem right to me that they prevent Bolsonaro people from dressing in green and yellow, even though it seems fascist to me that they use the colors patriots", he explains to EL MUNDO.

"I am a white woman, privileged, with economic security. I vote three blocks from my house. Mine is relatively easy, I would not recommend someone who lives in neighborhoods dominated by the militia to wear red. But I think the right must exist, although not in this dystopian Brazil, this nonsense".

Election Sunday came with a positive fact, the good weather in most of Brazil, after two weeks of persistent rains in the fifth largest country in the world.

Deep in the Amazon, a mayoral candidate handed out gasoline to 1,200 indigenous people in the remote Javarí Valley so they could make the days-long trip down the river to the nearest polling station.

Neither white nor privileged, Erika would say.

Avenida Paulista is a long way from the Amazon, in every way.

There, in the main artery of Sao Paulo, the largest city in the West, a young man feasted on the elections: in Brazil it is common to sell scarves, like those of soccer teams, with the candidates' faces on the elections.

Brazilians call them 'toalhas', towels.

That is how the @DataToalhaSP

account was born on social networks

, referring to DataFolha, one of the country's most renowned polling institutes and the object of constant disqualification by Bolsonaro: in the count of the "towels" he sells, he wins with lula clarity.

"

DataToalha

is decentralized information", argues Saulo Hunter, the seller.

Even so,

DataToalha

seems like a scientific truth when compared to what was published over the weekend by

Folha de Sao Paulo

, one of the most renowned newspapers in the country, in its space dedicated to astrology: "The astrological conditions of Lula are superior to those of Bolsonaro, the planets indicate his victory".

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