r/AskABrazilian

CLARIFICATION: This question is directed exclusively at Brazilians who have decided to vote for Flávio or who support Flávio.

I have to be honest: i have no idea. Why will you, as a Brazilian, vote for the son of an ex-president who was convicted of attempting a coup? Why is it worth it to you to vote for Flávio over every other presidential candidate, including Lula?

Please feel free to say whatever you want. I won't criticize you, argue with you or judge your political opinions. I created this post with a genuine intention to understand those who plan to vote for Flávio or who support him.

I moved to Brazil last year, and as a Black person, I’m unsure if I should be scared or not. Just a public service announcement: I’m not American, although some of my family members live there, and things aren't great with Trump. What will change moving forward with this new president who has Trump support?

I'm Irish and I'm following the euphoria of the elections in Brazil; my friends have already voted. But I wanted to know who you believe is best not only for Brazil, but for the world.

Honestly, I only hear bad things about Bolsonaro, especially during the COVID pandemic, which killed 700,000 people. But all I know is that he unconditionally supports the US, burned the Amazon, and seems fascist to me, and tried to destroying the democracy of Brazil, and are in jail right now. But I want to know the opinion of other Brazilians about him, and I can't judge him just by what I hear from friends or what I see on the internet. Especially since his son is running, and I'd like to know if he is at least a little different from his father on these political issues.

The vast majority of them support Lula; they say he wants a sovereign Brazil, closer to BRICS, respects human rights, and if I'm not mistaken, I saw his speech at the UN criticizing Trump and Netanyahu, which is excellent. It's great to see a president who positions himself like him. But I'm also a bit hesitant about certain topics he seems to avoid addressing. Especially dictatorships around the world. What does he think about the murder of women in Iran? Regimes like North Korea? And Putin's invasion of Ukraine?

I want to hear from Brazilians here.

I read that all of the voters of the 3 other candidates who got over 2% will go to Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro winning means that the Amazon rainforest will suffer MASSIVE deforestation. The entire world relies on it for oxygen. How could Brazil vote against saving its own supplier of oxygen??? Vote against nature?? This is terrifying.

I'm not going to comment on the politics specifically more so like did the coup thing not really matter to a bunch of people?

With 99% of the votes counted 5,939,032 are "null", making up about 5% of all votes cast. This seems like very high percentage to me. What are the reasons?