00:00For more details on how this Electro Day is unfolding, let's go live to Rio de Janeiro
00:04with our special envoy Belen De Los Santos who has more details for us.
00:08Welcome Belen, good morning. What can you tell us from there?
00:13Hello Luis, how are you? Exactly as you were saying, we are in Botafogo in the southeast of Rio de
00:19Janeiro
00:19and the polls have been open for quite some time now. It's 9.30 a.m. local time.
00:25The polls have been open since 8 a.m. Let's recall that of the total electorate of Brazil.
00:32This is the third largest electoral district, Rio de Janeiro.
00:36That is why it is one of the most important districts, these important places in the southeast of the country
00:43where the main candidates have focused their last efforts.
00:46We have been here inside the school as well.
00:49Right now where we are located is just outside one of the voting schools, the Santaynacio Voting School here in
00:57Botafogo.
00:58We are right outside because of the regulations that have to do with how press can access.
01:04We have been able to be inside. Hopefully you have the images.
01:07The voting is going as planned with no incidents.
01:11But of course, in order to talk about this and to report back to you, we need to be outside
01:17to respect those regulations
01:18that include not speaking about the different candidates, the analysis, because that would be a contravention in this case.
01:27Hopefully, as you can see right where I am and in the images that we've sent to studios, the people
01:32are coming in.
01:33No problem.
01:35One particular thing that we would like to share with the rest of the audience as well,
01:40you may be seeing people with these stickers that align themselves and show probably who they're going to vote for,
01:48their political alignment.
01:49That is very characteristic of the last days of campaign here in Brazil, also with shirts or flags.
01:55That is because even though campaigning has officially stopped yesterday, 10 p.m.,
02:02silent demonstrations are allowed.
02:05That means that people can come in with a sticker, for example, showing who they're going to vote for,
02:11also a t-shirt, a cap.
02:13What they cannot do is they cannot openly speak, talk or make any loud demonstration
02:20that would not only indicate who they're voting for, but interfere or make it any other else's business
02:28who they're going to vote in this election.
02:31So that is a little bit of what we are seeing right now.
02:34The day is starting.
02:35It will go on until 5 p.m., as you were just saying.
02:40Our first contact with you throughout the day.
02:42What can you tell us on how the voting process takes place in Brazil?
02:46We have seen throughout the campaign talk about the electronic voting,
02:50so I don't know if you can give us a bit of more details on how voting is done in
02:54Brazil.
02:58Exactly.
02:58So a little bit more information for our external audience.
03:02The voting is actually, let's recall, that people are not only electing president right now,
03:08but president, governor, two senators.
03:11Every state is choosing two senators in this election as well.
03:14And then you have the federal deputies and the local, the state deputies.
03:20So all of those positions are being elected today.
03:24How that is done is through a machine, as you were saying.
03:27And it is each candidate for each position has a specific code, a number code.
03:33And the voters have to come inside in the machine and write the exact code
03:38that identifies each candidate for each of the positions.
03:43They cannot go inside with cell phones or any other electronic device,
03:48but they can go inside with a paper reminding them the code for each candidate that they want to vote
03:54for.
03:55So that is the colina here in Brazil, very important.
03:58And we've seen a lot of them in the last campaigning.
04:02It's part of the final activities because it's militants handing over to the people
04:09these little sheets of paper that will have the codes for each candidate that they're campaigning for, of course.
04:16So when you hear, for example, the militants talking about Lula 13, that is what it means.
04:23That is the number that identifies that candidate in particular.
04:28So that is the entire process, particularly here to Brazil.
04:31Also, one more thing before we go.
04:33Luis Flavio Bolsonaro has already exercised his right to vote here in Rio de Janeiro as well,
04:39north of where we are in particular.
04:41And he also gave a brief statement to the press and is then heading towards Brasilia.
04:47There was some speculation before that he would be waiting for the counting of the votes here in Rio de
04:55Janeiro.
04:55It's one of his bases.
04:57He is senator for the state of Rio de Janeiro.
04:59But final news is he will be going to Brasilia.
05:02So that is where the Bolsonaro's candidate will be awaiting the final results after 5 p.m.
05:09Thank you, Belen.
05:09And of course, we're going to stay in contact throughout the day to learn more about what is happening in
05:14Brazil.
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