medicinablr:

Today was the first round of the presidential elections here in Brazil and a homophobic, racist, sexist, pro-dictatorship rightwing extremist man got around 48% of the votes.

Here in Brazil a candidate can only win if they have more than 50% of the votes, so there’s still going to be another round of voting between him and the second place candidate. He didn’t win yet, but the way I see it, for him to get 48% of the votes is already a great loss for this country.

You can read more about it in these links that I found in english:

• The Guardian
• The Economist