HURRAH!!!! LULA IS BACK IN!!!!!
After a landslide victory with over 60% of the vote, and beating his nearest rival by over 20%......Presidente Lula is back for another 4 years.....I love this guy!!
Even after carefully timed corruption scandals which cost him the first election a month ago, he only failed to reach the designated minimum 50% of the vote required to win by a couple of percent.....and now in the ensuing rematch he's pulled it off.
The scandals were promoted heavily by the right wing media here only days before the primary election......the right wing media here being all the media and nothing but.....TV, Radio and Newspapers are all owned by the same people of the same class. For no apparent reason, the middle and upper classes here live in fear of the poor (the workers) and protect themselves in any way deemed necessary, including ways that forever hold back one of the intrinsically richest countries in the world. Lula and his PT (Workers Party) threaten them to the very core.
At the time of his election four years ago he promised the country one basic thing.....that by the end of his four year Presidency everyone in the country would have three meals a day. And sure enough there is now a social fund for those out of work to receive a basic provisions allowance until an income is found.

I am starting a movement called "Lula for Prime Minister".....subtitle " Of the UK as well."......the UK really needs a leader who makes promises that need keeping, and then actually keeps them. Perhaps we should have a US branch too. Anywhere else you can think of that needs an honest leader ???

However even with such an apparent vote of confidence from the populace, things are not as simple as they seem, even in straightforward Brasil (hahaha)....below a slice from "The Moderate Voice" website....

" The "vote of confidence" was "a landslide victory [for] the former union leader whose first term was marked by a significant reduction of poverty and by corruption scandals that implicated some of his closest aides".
The BBC calls it "a resounding victory".But was it? Lula received less than 50% of the first-round vote. In the October 1 congressional elections, his party, the leftist Workers' Party, won only 15.0% of the vote for the Chamber of Deputies and only 19.2% of the vote for the Senate.
In terms of seats, it won only 83 of 513 in the Chamber of Deputies. And it won only two of the 27 contested Senate races (one-third of the seats were contested this year), bringing its total there to only 11 of 81.
In contrast, Alckmin's center-left Social Democracy Party won 65 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and five of the 27 contested Senate races, bringing its total there to 15.It's all quite confusing, though.
Brazil uses a List-Proportional Representation electoral system that allows for many different parties to be represented in the National Congress (roughly according to their share of the popular vote). In fact, 21 parties won at least one seat in the Chamber of Deputies, and 13 parties have at least one seat in the Senate. (Aside from the Workers' Party and the Social Democracy Party, the other leading parties are the centrist Democratic Movement Party and the center-right Liberal Front Party.)
Needless to say, coalition-building is imperative. Lula may have won the presidency by a wide margin in yesterday's vote, but the landscape in the legislature, where his own party is only one of many, is far less clear. "

I shall be running a surprise test on all this later on.