Brazil election hits: voters calmly voted in order at the scene

　　China News Agency, Sao Paulo, October 2nd, title: Brazil's general election hits: voters calmly vote in an orderly manner

　　China News Agency reporter Mo Chengxiong

　　At 8:00 a.m. local time on October 2, the first round of voting in the 2022 Brazilian presidential election officially began.

Eleven presidential candidates from various parties are competing for the next presidential throne.

　　That morning, the weather in Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city, was sunny and sunny, and people came to various polling stations one after another to cast their votes.

At about 10:30 in the morning, a reporter from China News Agency came to a polling station in the center of Sao Paulo to interview. This is a school that was temporarily borrowed for voting.

In Brazil's general election, many polling stations are located in schools.

　　Two heavily armed police officers patrolled back and forth at the school gate to maintain order.

Many voters came by car, and the streets in front of the school were full of all kinds of cars.

　　The reporter saw at the scene that after simple identification and registration, voters went straight into the classroom to vote.

There are not many people in the classroom, it is not crowded, and the scene is orderly.

An electronic voting machine is erected in the classroom, and voters need to operate the electronic voting machine by themselves to vote.

The entire voting process takes about 5 minutes.

　　Brazil's major TV stations broadcast the general election in turn to update the election situation in real time.

　　According to Brazilian media reports, at 8:13 a.m. that day, former President Lula, a candidate for the left-wing Labor Party in Brazil, voted at a school polling station in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Sao Paulo state.

After the vote, Lula said, "This is the most important election in Brazil's history, and I am very happy to vote."

　　At 8:50 a.m. that day, Brazil's right-wing Liberal Party candidate and current President Bolsonaro voted at a polling station in the western district of Rio de Janeiro.

"A clean election must be respected," he told the media after the vote.

　　The first round of voting in the Brazilian general election will end at 5 pm on the same day, and the counting of votes will start at 7 pm. The election results are expected to be announced that night.

　　Under Brazilian law, if no candidate wins more than half of the votes in the first round of the presidential election, the two candidates with the most votes will decide the winner in the second ballot.

The second round of voting is scheduled for October 30.

　　In addition to the election of the president, voters on the same day will vote for all 513 members of the Brazilian Federal House of Representatives, one-third of all 81 senators in the Federal Senate, the governors of the country's 26 states and the district governor of the Federal District of Brasilia and members of state legislatures.

　　According to the poll results released by Brazil's authoritative polling agency Datafolha on the 1st local time, Lula and Bolsonaro are still the top two residents in the poll, with 48% and 34% of the public opinion respectively, far ahead of others. presidential candidate.

Excluding blanks, invalid votes and unresolved votes, Lula's potential effective vote rate reaches 50%, Bolsonaro's 36%.

　　According to statistics from Brazil's Supreme Electoral Court (TSE), there are 156 million registered voters in Brazil's general election this year, an increase of 6.2% compared with the 2018 election, accounting for about 72.5% of Brazil's total population.

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