Gilberto M.A. Rodrigues, associate professor and coordinator of the postgraduate program in international relations at the Federal University of ABC in Brazil: “The result of Brazil’s presidential election was extraordinary for former President Lula, who beat Bolsonaro by a margin of more than six million votes. This, considering that the current president mobilized enormous government resources, with the support of Congress, to change the constitution and approve temporary measures prohibited in an election period to benefit the population in favor of his candidacy. The polls are not wrong about Lula’s voting capacity, since his 48.43 percent is within the margin of error of the methodology. However, candidates Simone Tebet and Ciro Gomes had fewer votes than expected, which reveals an early migration of part of their voters to Bolsonaro already in the first round, something that the polls failed to capture. In addition, there was a strong ultra-right wave in the election of senators and deputies, which benefited…”