Where Voting Matters - Fabricio Guerra

Votes in Brazil
     In Brazil voting works for the president works this way: there is the first round of votes to determine two candidates and then the second round of votes to determine the president. Recently the polls have been stuffed with 11 candidates in the first round. However, if one candidate gets more than 50% of the votes he automatically wins the presidency. The two candidates that were expected to win the first round were Fernando Haddad and Jair Bolsonaro. Fernando Haddad is in the PT (Partido dos Trabalhadores or Worker's Party) that is leftist. Jair Bolsonaro is for the PSL (Partido Social Liberal or Social Liberal Party) and he is an extreme-right activist who believes that the answer to the countries crime problem is to arm the citizens with guns. Can you see the problem here?

     Brazil is a young democracy. It was led by a brutal military dictatorship from 1964-1985, in which several hundred people disappeared and were killed by the government. After that, there was finally a democracy, and in 2002 the PT won by a landslide victory, winning 61% of the votes. He won again in 2006, and then his predecessor Dilma Rousseff won by another massive margin, but this time Dilma's presidency was nowhere near a good as Lula's. Under Lula, the economy grew and poverty fell, but under Dilma, everything began to slowly collapse until 2014 when Dilma was elected again by a smaller margin and then everything just went very downhill after that. Dilma wasn't good at managing the economy which led to Brazil's worst recession in a while. Dilma ended up being impeached and Lula was jailed under corruption charges. He was disqualified from running in the election on September 1st and installed Fernando Haddad as his choice for party leader.

     Now the election happening in 2018 is somewhat scary. In the first round of voting, Jair Bolsonaro almost won since he had 47.5% of all votes. This is a massive problem because he believes in things that a president should not believe in. Though he's never said it, he definitely favors the military dictatorship, saying that the only reason it failed is that they simply didn't kill enough people (he actually said that, not even kidding). That remark goes along with his others such as "a dead son is better than a gay son" and "I would not rape you, you are too ugly for my liking." Having him as president would very much ruin the democracy, and it could very much ruin Brazil.

Comments

  1. Andreas CantuOctober 22, 2018 at 7:47 PM

    Dang Fabby, mine looks horrible compared to yours

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  2. Gabe AvritscherOctober 23, 2018 at 8:16 AM

    Can you please remind me what party Dilma's from... Oh, wait...

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    1. Gabe AvritscherOctober 23, 2018 at 8:18 AM

      Also, how would Haddad improve the country? Bolsonaro promised lower crime and a stronger economy, and I'm wondering what other promises Haddad made?

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