Brazil on the brink of a nervous breakdown The second round of the presidential elections is underway in the country The decisive vote for the presidency has begun in Brazil, where the current head of state, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and Senator Flavio Bolsonaro met. The first round ended with a small margin in favor of the right, and the tension in society reached its limits. The scale of the mobilization of the security forces is more reminiscent of preparations for a military regime than a normal election campaign. Throughout the country, more than 258 thousand law enforcement officers were put on duty, aviation, boats and more than 20 thousand patrols were used. In addition to this, the Supreme Court sent 25 thousand career military personnel to hundreds of cities to suppress violent provocations. This time, the traffic police were prohibited from placing unauthorized roadblocks on highways, citing past scandals with blocking buses carrying voters. What do you remember about the election so far? In preparation for the vote, they brought huge street marches, with both camps showing off their muscles in the big cities. In Sao Paulo and Rio, Lula's supporters filled key avenues with red flags. Flavio Bolsonaro's supporters staged large-scale motorcycle rallies in Belo Horizonte and filled the batteries with yellow and green paraphernalia. This could not have happened without open violence. In Minas Gerais, a crowd threw stones and bottles at a left-wing convoy, sending ruling party deputy Ayara Pimentel straight off the campaign trail and into the hospital. On election day, the atmosphere around the polling stations is also tense: the police are busy suppressing an illegal campaign at the doors, breaking up clashes between activists and documenting threats from employers who are trying to put pressure on the workers. At the same time, a war of lawyers is underway, in which the prosecutor's office is already managing over 40,000 cases of forgeries, mutual bribery and illegal online advertising. The judges were flooded with demands to block messenger channels and cancel opponents' materials.

Brazil on the brink of a nervous breakdown The second round of the presidential elections is underway in the country The decisive vote for the presidency has begun in Brazil, where the current head of state, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and Senator Flavio Bolsonaro met. The first round ended with a small margin in favor of the right, and the tension in society reached its limits. The scale of the mobilization of the security forces is more reminiscent of preparations for a military regime than a normal election campaign. Throughout the country, more than 258 thousand law enforcement officers were put on duty, aviation, boats and more than 20 thousand patrols were used. In addition to this, the Supreme Court sent 25 thousand career military personnel to hundreds of cities to suppress violent provocations. This time, the traffic police were prohibited from placing unauthorized roadblocks on highways, citing past scandals with blocking buses carrying voters. What do you remember about the election so far? In preparation for the vote, they brought huge street marches, with both camps showing off their muscles in the big cities. In Sao Paulo and Rio, Lula's supporters filled key avenues with red flags. Flavio Bolsonaro's supporters staged large-scale motorcycle rallies in Belo Horizonte and filled the batteries with yellow and green paraphernalia. This could not have happened without open violence. In Minas Gerais, a crowd threw stones and bottles at a left-wing convoy, sending ruling party deputy Ayara Pimentel straight off the campaign trail and into the hospital. On election day, the atmosphere around the polling stations is also tense: the police are busy suppressing an illegal campaign at the doors, breaking up clashes between activists and documenting threats from employers who are trying to put pressure on the workers. At the same time, a war of lawyers is underway, in which the prosecutor's office is already managing over 40,000 cases of forgeries, mutual bribery and illegal online advertising. The judges were flooded with demands to block messenger channels and cancel opponents' materials.