Members Bucknaway1614502762 Posted October 28, 2018 Members Posted October 28, 2018 ABOUT THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION Far-right Bolsonaro wins Brazil presidential race by Reuters Sunday, 28 October 2018 23:02 GMT (Adds Bolsonaro comments, celebrations outside his house) By Jake Spring and Anthony Boadle BRASILIA, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Far-right lawmaker Jair Bolsonaro won Brazil's presidential election on Sunday, riding a wave of frustration over corruption and crime that brought a dramatic swing to the right in the world's fourth-largest democracy. With 94 percent of ballots counted, Bolsonaro had 56 percent of the votes in the run-off election against left-wing hopeful Fernando Haddad of the Workers Party (PT), who had 44 percent, according to the electoral authority TSE. "We cannot continue flirting with communism ... We are going to change the destiny of Brazil," Bolsonaro said in an acceptance address in which he vowed to carry out his campaign promises to stamp out corruption after years of leftist rule. The former army captain's rise has been propelled by rejection of the leftist PT that ran Brazil for 13 of the last 15 years and was ousted two years ago in the midst of a deep recession and political graft scandal. Thousands of Bolsonaro supporters cheered and set off fireworks outside his home in Rio de Janeiro's Barra de Tijuca beachfront neighborhood as his victory was announced. In Brazil's commercial capital of Sao Paulo, Bolsonaro's win was greeted with fireworks and the honking of car horns. "Brazil is partying. Brazil's good people are celebrating," said Carmen Flores, local president of Bolsonaro's PSL party. The vote had been calm and orderly across the country, said Laura Chinchilla, the former president of Costa Rica who is head of the Organization of American States' Electoral Observation Mission. Brazil has suffered a spate of partisan violence during the polarized campaign. Many Brazilians are concerned that Bolsonaro, an admirer of Brazil's 1964-1985 military dictatorship and a defender of its use of torture on leftist opponents, will trample on human rights, curtail civil liberties and muzzle freedom of speech. The 63-year-old seven-term congressman has vowed to crack down on crime in Brazil's cities and farm belt by granting police more autonomy to shoot at criminals. He also wants to let more Brazilians buy weapons to fight crime. (Reporting by Anthony Boadle and Jake Spring in Brasilia, Rodrigo Viga Gaier in Rio de Janeiro and Brad Brooks in Sao Paulo; Editing by Cynthia Osterman and Rosalba O'Brien) Quote
Members mvan1 Posted October 28, 2018 Members Posted October 28, 2018 31 minutes ago, Bucknaway1614502762 said: ABOUT THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION Far-right Bolsonaro wins Brazil presidential race by Reuters Sunday, 28 October 2018 23:02 GMT (Adds Bolsonaro comments, celebrations outside his house) By Jake Spring and Anthony Boadle BRASILIA, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Far-right lawmaker Jair Bolsonaro won Brazil's presidential election on Sunday, riding a wave of frustration over corruption and crime that brought a dramatic swing to the right in the world's fourth-largest democracy. With 94 percent of ballots counted, Bolsonaro had 56 percent of the votes in the run-off election against left-wing hopeful Fernando Haddad of the Workers Party (PT), who had 44 percent, according to the electoral authority TSE. "We cannot continue flirting with communism ... We are going to change the destiny of Brazil," Bolsonaro said in an acceptance address in which he vowed to carry out his campaign promises to stamp out corruption after years of leftist rule. The former army captain's rise has been propelled by rejection of the leftist PT that ran Brazil for 13 of the last 15 years and was ousted two years ago in the midst of a deep recession and political graft scandal. Thousands of Bolsonaro supporters cheered and set off fireworks outside his home in Rio de Janeiro's Barra de Tijuca beachfront neighborhood as his victory was announced. In Brazil's commercial capital of Sao Paulo, Bolsonaro's win was greeted with fireworks and the honking of car horns. "Brazil is partying. Brazil's good people are celebrating," said Carmen Flores, local president of Bolsonaro's PSL party. The vote had been calm and orderly across the country, said Laura Chinchilla, the former president of Costa Rica who is head of the Organization of American States' Electoral Observation Mission. Brazil has suffered a spate of partisan violence during the polarized campaign. Many Brazilians are concerned that Bolsonaro, an admirer of Brazil's 1964-1985 military dictatorship and a defender of its use of torture on leftist opponents, will trample on human rights, curtail civil liberties and muzzle freedom of speech. The 63-year-old seven-term congressman has vowed to crack down on crime in Brazil's cities and farm belt by granting police more autonomy to shoot at criminals. He also wants to let more Brazilians buy weapons to fight crime. (Reporting by Anthony Boadle and Jake Spring in Brasilia, Rodrigo Viga Gaier in Rio de Janeiro and Brad Brooks in Sao Paulo; Editing by Cynthia Osterman and Rosalba O'Brien) Now you can clap with both hands! Isn't that nice? Quote
Members Bucknaway1614502762 Posted October 29, 2018 Author Members Posted October 29, 2018 I wish the best for Brazil, but I can only vote in the USA. I dont know the man but I hear the Brazilians liken him to President Trump. mvan1 1 Quote
Members mvan1 Posted October 29, 2018 Members Posted October 29, 2018 1 hour ago, Bucknaway1614502762 said: I wish the best for Brazil, but I can only vote in the USA. I dont know the man but I hear the Brazilians liken him to President Trump. Bucky, in Brazil, he is jokingly called the Trump of the Tropics. Unlike Trump, he is not known for being a chronic and habitual liar. He is similar to Trump in being anti abortion and anti gay and anti minorities. Other than the above, he is a "no nonsense" man with some seemingly radical ideas. Something had to give in Brazil. Brazil's economy is in the pits and crime is out of control. This former military tough guy came along and said he would make a lot of changes to help Brazil's economy and combat rampant crime in Brazil. Not one person I know from Brazil (and I spend a lot of time in Brazil and know a lot of Brazilians) has said they like the Workers' Party anymore. That was the party of Lula and was horribly corrupt. You may know that Lula (the former two-term president) is currently in prison for corruption. As a side note, wouldn't that be nice if Trump met a similar fate? We shall see, come January, how Bolsonaro behaves. Hopefully, he will keep his word and choose competent people for his cabinet. As you know, it was an in-and- out circus with Trump and the people he chose to serve on his cabinet. We shall see. Quote
Members Bucknaway1614502762 Posted October 29, 2018 Author Members Posted October 29, 2018 He is is President now. Hope he lives up to the Hope's of the voters. mvan1 1 Quote
Members mvan1 Posted October 29, 2018 Members Posted October 29, 2018 37 minutes ago, Bucknaway1614502762 said: He is is President now. Hope he lives up to the Hope's of the voters. No, Bucky, he is not president now. He will be president come January next year. He has another surgery scheduled to repair damage that was done to his chest by the lunatic that stabbed him during his campaign. This is his third surgery for that tragic event. Maybe that tragic event will guide him so that he does not divide Brazil as Trump has horrifically divided America. Hopefully, Bolsonaro will, unlike Trump has done, remember that he is the president for all of the citizens of his country, even though he won only 55% of the vote. That means that 45% of the nation voted against him. I don't think Bolsonaro will be like Trump and break the spirit of the Brazilian people by pitting one political party against the other (like Trump did and does) nor will he repeatedly complain to the public that the news media is the "enemy of the people" like Trump did and does. With luck, the Brazilian people will have a real leader come this January instead of something like we Americans have in our Whitehouse. Quote
Members Bucknaway1614502762 Posted October 29, 2018 Author Members Posted October 29, 2018 At any rate, food luck to them. I wonder how many other countries want a their own Trumpian leader? Quote
Members Candyman Posted October 29, 2018 Members Posted October 29, 2018 Steve Bannon advised him. Surprised? Quote Brazil: Steve Bannon to Advise Bolsonaro Presidential Campaign Political strategist Steve Bannon, a founding member of the far right-wing news website Breitbart News and former chief advisor to United States President Donald Trump, will be an advisor to Brazilian Presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro for the upcoming elections in October. The announcement was made by Bolsonaro's son and congressman, Eduardo Bolsonaro. “Bannon said that Bolsonaro's mission in Brazil” will be more “arduous” than Trump's presidential campaign, said Eduardo Bolsonaro. He also affirmed that “Bannon had made himself available to help” Bolsonaro's presidential run. “This, obviously, doesn't include anything financial. We've made this point very clear. The support will come in the form of giving internet tips, analysis, interpreting data, that type of stuff.” https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Brazil-Steve-Bannon-to-Advise-Bolsonaro-Presidential-Campaign-20180815-0003.html Quote
