Politics

Evangelicals, influencers, and men: the votes Lula still struggles to obtain

A political scientist said Lula has a 71 percent of clinching the election in the first round. For that, he will have to reach across the aisle. Photo: Andre Ribeiro/Futura Press/Folhapress

Months before the 2018 elections, Esther Solano, a sociologist at the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp), had pointed out that the social context was very favorable to the election of President Jair Bolsonaro. In an interview published by The Brazilian Report in August of that year, she said that the Brazilian left had failed to establish a dialogue with voters who were co-opted by Mr. Bolsonaro.

Four years later, with...

Amanda Audi

Amanda Audi is a journalist specializing in politics and human rights. She is the former executive director of Congresso em Foco and worked as a reporter for The Intercept Brasil, Folha de S. Paulo, O Globo, Gazeta do Povo, Poder360, among others. In 2019, she won the Comunique-se Award for best-written media reporter and won the Mulher Imprensa award for web journalism in 2020