00:00Let's go now to Sao Paulo with our correspondent Brian Meir for more details coming from that
00:05Brazilian area, region. Welcome Brian to From the South.
00:10Hi, yes, well I'm standing right now in front of Sion Catholic School in the neighborhood of
00:17Hygienopolis in Sao Paulo. This is a location where on February 10th, 1980, the Brazilian
00:23Workers Party had its act of legal formation in the auditorium with the presence of some
00:29of the most prominent union leaders and organic intellectuals in the country, such as Paulo
00:34Freire, and so it has a special significance for the Workers Party, but it's not necessarily
00:41in a neighborhood that's dominated by the Workers Party. However, today, I was here four years
00:46ago recording, and I saw a lot of people who were giving these kind of like silent shows
00:51of support that Belen just mentioned to you, t-shirts or things like that, for Jair Bolsonaro.
00:58And today, I'm seeing a lot of people in red. I'm kind of surprised. I don't know if this
01:05is a sign of how well Lula's campaign is doing, or how the demographic support base for his
01:14may be shifting. So it's just an interesting observation. So far, things have been going
01:19on uneventfully. Lula has already voted in San Bernardo do Campo in his neighborhood near
01:27the ABC Metallurgian Workers Union, the location of the historic strikes in the 1970s that helped
01:33bring down the military deck to the ship that candidate Flavio Bolsonaro's father was a part
01:38of. He's expected to wait to watch the results in the Union Center in San Bernardo do Campo.
01:46And for now, everything's just going smoothly. We're going to find out whether we need runoff
01:53elections, not just for the presidency, but for all 27 gubernatorial races, the 26 Brazilian
02:00states and the federal district, if one candidate gets 50% plus one vote, then he or she will
02:08win in the first round. However, if that doesn't happen, they'll have a runoff on October 25th
02:14between the two leading candidates in the Brazilian states. So we're going to find out the results
02:20pretty quickly. I remember four years ago, we knew within about three hours of polls closing,
02:26who had won the election. So people are going to be gathering around their TV sets, having
02:31watch parties and things like that later on today.
02:35Thank you, Ryan, for the information. We'll stay also in contact with you throughout the day
02:39to learn what is happening on the ground in Brazil.
