00:00One day after Lula da Silva's victory, celebrations continue across Brazil as supporters welcome
00:06the elections result.
00:08We join our correspondent Brian Murray in San Pablo to go deeper in the topic.
00:13Hello Brian, welcome.
00:16Hi Anna, great to see you back.
00:19Thank you very much.
00:21What can you tell us about the people thing of this Lula's victory this Sunday 25th in
00:29this presidential runoff after he came second in the first rounds on October 4th?
00:36Well this is the first time since the return to democracy in 1988 that someone has ever
00:42lost the first round in a presidential election and come from behind to end up winning.
00:47So this was a historic occurrence.
00:50Now after the first round in which Lula trailed by 1.8 percent, the Workers' Party announced
00:58that the strategy was going to be to focus on abstention.
01:0233 million people just didn't show up to the voting set on October 5th.
01:08They felt like, the Workers' Party felt like it would be easier to convince people who didn't
01:13vote the first time to vote the second time than it would be to change the minds of Bolsonaro's
01:19supporters.
01:20And so what happened in the second round is that Brazil had its lowest rate of abstention
01:28since the 1990s.
01:31Basically, 14 million people voted in the second round who didn't vote in the first round.
01:38And of those 14 million, 10.4 million voted for Lula and only about 3.7 million voted for
01:45Flávio Bolsonaro.
01:47So this is really what made the difference.
01:50There were also big gains in cities like Sao Paulo.
01:54In Rio de Janeiro, where Lula lost in the first round, he won in the second round in the city
02:00of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's second largest city.
02:02And also in Porto Alegre, he lost in the first round and won in the second round.
02:06So it was the urban vote, the allegiance of Brazil's northeast, where 69% of the voters
02:15voted for Lula, and the fact that they managed to convince voters who abstained in the first
02:20round to come up to the polls yesterday, are what the Workers' Party believes made the difference
02:24in this election.
02:26Thank you very much, Brian, for the information.
02:32Thank you very much.
02:32Thank you very much.
02:34Thank you very much.
