This is a relief. This plus Vucic losing in Serbia has made for a pretty good day
Vucic losing in Serbia
I had not heard yet – this is great news!
Congratulations to both Serbia and Brazil for saying NO to autocracy!
They’re still not totally clear on their foreign policy(, which is required to join the EU), e.g. by refusing to recognize Kosovo and sanctioning Russia 🤷
But they may change their mind after being elected, and yeah, big victory a few months after winning Hungary.
Sure glad to hear the coup plotter’s son wasn’t elected
By a whooping 1.5% difference, we haven’t got a mob boss on the head of the executive power, with an aligned congress and the capacity of putting 2 judges on the supreme court and get a majority there.
So… whew… our democracy will only die slowly now. Beats dying quickly.
A whopping 10 million more people voted for Lula in this second turn of the election, and he had a 4 million voters lead on Flávio. That’s not a bad number. Now our job is to push the government in prosecuting all the mayors and secretaries involved in undermining the election.
And banning facebook before the next election.
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Such good news to start the week with. Congrats to Brazil!
The American billionaires aren’t going to like their right wing puppet lost
Now if only British Columbia hadn’t put the conservatives in power there.
I’m glad for this and enough good people showed up this time. It shouldn’t be so close though in all these elections, but the lies work. Canada had to back away from the edge last time and others have still gone to the authoritarian bs. They spread the propaganda more than ever to keep winning with their lies so don’t fall for it. See that history shows their ways suck long-term and healthy ways proven in other countries are the way to go. Stay the course of proven healthy policies and demand better! Swinging back and forth is like a wrecking ball, and can’t rebuild as fast as destroy. Think critically, refute the propaganda, use Sagan’s baloney detection kit to understand accurately, read Democracy In Chains, you can do better!!
Who is Lula ?
The president of Brazil.
A man who has been opposing the far right in Brazil since the 70s. He became a union leader after a workplace incident and medical negligence caused him to lose his little finger at 17 years old working in a steel mill, as he had been working there during the nights to be able to afford living. From union leader, he spent many years fighting the far-right USA-backed military dictatorship in Brazil, ending up in prison more than once, and also suffering torture. In 1989, when Brazil recovered its democracy, he ran for president against Collor, a rich asshole from the far right, and then lost because of the far right propaganda of “He is a Communist, he will take your pension money and savings from you!!”. What ended up happening though was that Collor himself had that plan, his right-wing government froze the savings accounts of middle class people, and then confiscated it all. A few years later, in 2002, Lula finally won the presidency, and his first and second turns (2003-2010) were the fastest Brazil has ever grown and developed, we went from 12th to 6th economy in the world, and cruised unscathed through 2008 economic crisis. On top of all that, his early government is responsible for saving millions of people from hunger and misery, and for the first time ever Brazil had left the world’s hunger map. And then he was reelected back in 2022 and had to repeat the same feat of saving people from hunger and misery yet again, because of what the previous two far-right governments did.
Kind of a dumb and dumber choice there, unfortunately. Both are kind of putinist.
But Bolsonaro would’ve been slightly worse in various other ways so yay I guess.
