Pro abortion Communist candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been left seething after failing to secure an outright victory in Brazil's Presidential Election, with a run off now required against current prolife President Jair Bolsonaro.
Media outlets across the world ran a coordinated effort to try to displace Bolsonaro and were certain of victory on the first go.
Reuters were left fuming with the 48-43 result, which was short of the 50% needed for outright victory.
The international media outlet claimed that Bolsonaro had ‘robbed’ Lula writing:
“Brazil's presidential election is headed for a run-off after right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro outperformed polling and robbed leftist former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of an outright victory”.
NBC, Bloomberg and others used the term ‘polarized’ to describe the election.
One Anglo Saxon commentator from the Economist spread a bizarre conspiracy theory that Bolsonaro would ‘stir up violent opposition’:
“Too close for comfort. Bolsonaro markedly outperforms polls in 1st round of Brazil's election, invigorating his supporters and increasing chances he will seek to stir up violent opposition to Lula's still-likely ultimate win. The four weeks between now and 2nd round will be ugly”.
Lula has stated that he will legalise abortion if elected, with the usual ‘personally opposed but politically supportive’ line.
“I, Lula, father of five children, am against abortion and always have been. Now, I, the head of state, need to treat the matter as public health. Personally, that’s my thought, but how am I going to treat this as a head of state?
Many people are against abortion, but they run to other countries to do it in secret, while women die on the streets. It is up to the state to give these people the ability to get decent (medical) treatment, that’s the role of the state”.
The runoff will occur on October 30th.