One good news in the midst of overall gloom. A Bolsonaro victory, apart from other things, would have posed a serious threat to the residual Amazon forests and thereby our chances to avoid a global climate catastrophe.
There are reports of some tampering with the voting process by the Bolsonaro administration. The margin of defeat is quite narrow -- considerably narrower than predicted. One only hopes that the transfer of power would take place without any major hiccup. <<Far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro is defeated by left-wing ex-President Luiz Inácio "Lula" da Silva in the deciding round of Brazil’s presidential vote Lula won 50.8% of all valid votes to nearly 49.2% for Bolsonaro Lula, president from 2003 to 2010, sought a political comeback after being embroiled in several corruption scandals Bolsonaro's critics accused him of mishandling the Covid pandemic and allowing rampant deforestation in the Amazon The two candidates are polar opposites; Lula is a left-wing former trade union leader and Bolsonaro is a right-wing populist and former army captain Political tensions were high in the run-up to the vote, with accusations and misinformation on both sides of the campaign trail>> https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-latin-america-63407865 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/greenyouth/CACEsOZjJKWZBJJVX2gHBTTwwwass7im-5_%2BukEU9f8_0fRgUSA%40mail.gmail.com.
