In Brazil, where millions of Arabs, descendants, and immigrants live, the situation has been tense and volcanic-style for days. The cause is the upcoming elections on Sunday. If all polls indicate that the former president Inacio Lula da Silva will win the presidency out of seven candidates, the country with an area of 8 million square kilometres and a population of 217 million may experience a crisis that analysts have described.
They predict this based on a number of indicators, including what occurred last Saturday when someone asked everyone in a bar in southern Brazil if they planned to vote for Iacio Lula da Silva. When someone else responded that he did, the questioner attacked him, believing that he was conducting a poll for a media outlet. The 39-year-old man was repeatedly stabbed till he died.
In Goiânia, the state capital of “Goias” in central Brazil, 40-year-old Davi Augusto de Souza nearly passed away inside a church a month earlier after he objected to its distribution of leaflets urging worshipers not to vote for leftist parties, the most significant of which is the Workers’ Party that he leads.
If not for some of the followers stopping him from doing what he intended, Lula” would have won even if a policeman shot him in the leg, rendered him paralysed, and then came dangerously close to killing him with a second bullet.
Analysts also predict that “Lula,” who ruled from 2003 to 2010 for two terms, each lasting four years, will receive more than 50% of the vote and victory since the first round, to unseat the incumbent president, Jair Bolsonaro, who is described as a hard-line and controversial figure whose strange news has been circulating “online” for a long time.
However, if Lula’s share is lower than what is needed to win the first round, he and Bolsonaro, who came in second, will advance to a second round on October 30, where the candidate who receives the most votes, as predicted by the newspaper poll, will win Lula’s share of 54% of the vote and the remaining votes. While a different survey by the Brazilian organisation Ipec, whose findings were released last Monday, revealed that “Lola,” the man’s left hand’s amputated little finger, obtained 52% of voting intentions in the first round, compared to 34% for Bolsonaro.
Whether the 76-year-old Lula wins the first or second election, the 10 years younger Jair Bolsonaro would resemble a Brazilian Donald Trump by refusing to concede loss from the start and stating that he accepts the outcome of the vote “given that there is no proof of fraud.”
The candidate running under the banner of the conservative right-wing “liberal party,” Bolsonaro, used the face-carrying phrase throughout last September. It is identical to what the former US president said prior to the elections.
According to “Al Arabiya,” the populist president may not be able to accept the results of Sunday’s elections, so he turns to street protests and crisis management to stir up the situation and papers before laying the eggs of one crisis chicken that “the Amazon country” had never experienced due to any elections that had ever been held there.
net” came to this conclusion based on its knowledge of local media and the state of circumstances in the nation where more than 10 million Arabs, including descendants and expats, reside, at least 7 million of whom are Lebanese.
Previous inflammatory remarks by Bolsonaro, such as when he declared last August that he would not relinquish power and remarked, as reported by the agencies: “Only God can get me out of Brasilia,” in reference to the capital’s presidential palace, are concerning both domestically and globally.
In another statement, he stated that he only saw three options for his life and future: “Prison, death, or winning the presidential elections.” Prison was not an option for him because, in his words, “no one on earth can scare me.”
Brazil, home to 10 million Arabs, is experiencing intense electoral turmoil
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