00:00And to deeper understand what is happening in real time in Brazil, we go now to Sao Paulo with our
00:07correspondent Brian Mir as nationwide polling stations have closed. Go ahead, Brian, do you hear me? Are you here with
00:14us? Go ahead.
00:16Hi, Alejandro. Well, voting is closed in the 2026 election. And across the country, there were some weather issues. And
00:28so the electoral court issued an order that whoever was still in line waiting to vote at 5 p.m.
00:34could continue to exercise their right to vote.
00:37In other words, the polling stations will stay open until the last person who is in line at exactly 5
00:42p.m. is able to vote.
00:45So I'm standing behind the Renaissance Hotel in Sao Paulo right now, where President Lula is expected to arrive shortly.
00:53It's here that he and gubernatorial candidate Fernando Haddad and some of the other Workers' Party and coalition members who
01:01are running for office are going to watch the results being tabulated.
01:04They're expected to be announced sometime between 8 and 9 p.m.
01:09They've already started tallying the votes in real time right before I came on the air with 2 percent of
01:17the vote recorded.
01:19Flavio Bolsonaro was in the lead, but that doesn't mean much because it depends all on where what region of
01:25the country those votes come in from,
01:26because some parts of the country are much more conservative than others.
01:32Thank you, thank you very much, Brian.
01:34We are also going to be in contact with you throughout the day to have all the latest information in
01:41this election day.
