What Happens in Brazil Won’t Stay in Brazil: The 2022 Brazilian Elections
| Author | Mahrukh Doctor |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/20419058221127464 |
| Published date | 01 September 2022 |
| Date | 01 September 2022 |
8POLITICAL INSIGHT•SEPTEMBER 2022
Brazil will hold national elections
on 2 October 2022. Among
the posts being contested are
the oce of president, 27 state
governors, the national legislature and state
assemblies. So far, presidential incumbents
have always won if standing for re-election
in Brazil. However, this is the rst time
that an incumbent President – right-wing
populist Jair Bolsonaro of the Liberal Party
(PL) – will be standing against a former
President – centre-left Luiz Inácio Lula da
Silva of the Workers’ Party (PT). It is also the
rst time that the incumbent has remained
behind in opinion polls even just two
What Happens in
Brazil Won’t Stay
in Brazil: The 2022
Brazilian Elections
As Brazil prepares to go to the polls, Mahrukh Doctor assesses an election betwe en right and left that
could have major regional – and global – implications.
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