Lula da Silva isn’t enthusiastically jumping at the chance to open the industry, either. However, he seems interested in supporting the legislation if Congress were to approve it.<\/p>\n
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Bolsonaro led when the polls opened on Sunday, but as the votes started adding up, Lula da Silva narrowed the difference. With 70% of the vote in, he had pulled ahead and didn’t let go.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Because he didn’t reach 50% of the votes, a runoff is necessary. If he had only reached that threshold, it would have guaranteed him the presidency without sending voters to the polls again.<\/p>\n
The idea that Brazil’s gambling industry would expand sometime this year was already in doubt. The outcome of the elections was never going to alter the timeframe, which means 2023 would have likely been the earliest Congress made a decision.<\/strong><\/p>\nWith such a close race, there’s a chance Bolsonaro will keep control of the government. This wouldn’t be great news for gaming operators.<\/p>\n
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Should Lula da Silva win, he won’t have an easy job finding support in Congress. With the results of the rest of the elections in place, Bolsonaro was the clear winner in Congress.<\/p>\n
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Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party will have the most seats in the Senate, with 14 of 81. It will also control the Chamber of Deputies, with 99 of 513 seats. The majority of parliamentary representation will be conservative, which would put a hypothetical future Lula de Silva government in a difficult position.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
As for the fight in the states, 11 of the 27 will be in conservative hands. Three will be in Lula da Silva’s Workers’ Party. The rest will also go to the second round. Bolsonaro won in Rio de Janeiro and is the favorite in S\u00e3o Paulo, the economic engine of the country.<\/p>\n
Leading Minas Gerais, the second most populous state, will be a conservative, Romeu Zema. He once supported Bolsonaro, but now declares himself neutral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the run-up to Brazil’s government elections, former president Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva was the slight favorite to beat the country’s current president, Jair Bolsonaro. He did, but the margin wasn’t enough to avoid a second vote, which means there’s still no clear winner. Lula da Silva took the first round of the presidential […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":235269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81884,61],"tags":[40,81904,81901,80968],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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