Lula leads all polls, but could be excluded from the race. Photo: Ricardo Stuckert
The 2018 presidential election in Brazil has been polarized between two candidates: former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to the left, and Congressman Jair Bolsonaro to the right. It is by no means, however, a symmetric polarization. While Lula is a center-left pragmatist, a social-democrat, Bolsonaro is firmly on the far-right – it is safe to qualify him as Brazil’s answer to the neo-fascist movements in Europe.
Besides those two, all other relevant candidates are placed somewhere around the center: former ministers Marina Silva and Ciro Gomes to the center-left, and São Paulo Governor Geraldo Alckmin to the center-right. Other presidential hopefuls are as of yet irrelevant – either because they are polling far too low (such as Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles, at 1 percent), or because they have destroyed their own chances (at least for now), in the example of São Paulo Mayor João Doria.
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