Brazil Presidential and Congressional Elections 2018

[Zuza]

I know little about him, but isn't this Bolsonaro less a religious conservative (despite his party's name) and first and foremost a fan of military junta? Which means he doesn't have a close analogue in the US.

[Zuza]

Who people wouldn't vote for

Marina 28% (-4)

Surprisingly high, I thought she's rather uncontroversial and centrist.

[Zuza]

Seems like Haddad loses popularity. What happened?

[Zuza]

The Evangelical Congressional Front endorsed Bolsonaro today, the group includes 199 congressman and 4 senators.

Is it just a grouping of all Evangelical Protestants regardless of their party or political position? 199 congressmen out of 513 are Evangelicals? That's a very high number.

[Zuza]

Interesting to see how Alckmin loses miserably but his coalition still gets several times more seats than that of any other candidate.

[Zuza]

Interesting to see how Alckmin loses miserably but his coalition still gets several times more seats than that of any other candidate.

Also REDE and PV did not do that badly in the Congressional vote even as Marina Silva completely crashed and burned.

Actually, they did badly (only 5 seats) compared to MDB+PHS (40 seats) or Podemos+PSC+PRP+PTC (25 seats) whose candidates got roughly as many votes as Marina.

[Zuza]

What is the point of Podemos and their allies?

What is the point of most of the Brazilian parties?

Brazil currently probably has the most balkanized parliament ever, with a total of 30 parties and the largest of them barely getting 10 % of seats (the previous record holder could be Poland after the 1991 elections). And most of them are just tools of corrupt and/or populist politicians, typically without clear political positions and often with misleading names.

[Zuza]

Both Haddad and Ciro are trying to use this to make the Supreme Electoral Court contest Bolsonaro's candidacy and make him (and his running mate) drop out, Haddad also is trying to get Bolsonaro to be ineligible for eight years.

It would be insane if both people with by far the highest chances to win (Lula and Bolsonaro) were disqualified from running.

Just in case: what happens if Bolsonaro drops out? Haddad stays as the sole candidate?

[Zuza]

Most of them voted for Haddad in the runoff, about 20% of them nullified their votes and about 10% of them voted for Bolsonaro in the runoff.

Is there any statistics?