What Happens in Brazil Won’t Stay in Brazil: The 2022 Brazilian Elections

AuthorMahrukh Doctor
DOIhttp://doi.org/10.1177/20419058221127464
Published date01 September 2022
Date01 September 2022
8POLITICAL INSIGHTSEPTEMBER 2022
Brazil will hold national elections
on 2 October 2022. Among
the posts being contested are
the oce 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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