What’s at Stake in Brazil’s Bitter Presidential Runoff?

We saw the first round of presidential and local elections in Brazil. The right did extremely well on Sunday in the first round, but not enough to win outright. Here's why this presidential runoff is going to be so closely watched around the world. On one side, you had President Luis Enasula de Silva, who is the president of Brazil currently, an 80-year-old leftist. And on the other side is Flav Bossado, a 45year-old senator. He is the eldest son of Ja Bossada, the former right-wing president. Flavio got 47% of the vote. Lula got about 45% of the vote. This was actually a really big surprise because the polls for months have been saying that Lula would get more votes. This is pretty fatal for Lula himself, his his political career. He's now 80 years old, but it's also pretty fatal for the Workers Party and the left in general because at the moment there is no clear successor. Also, we had elections for the Senate. We had elections for the whole of the lower house of Congress and state governors. And the right really won big in all of those votes. Ja Bosanala himself is actually banned from running. He's serving a 27year prison sentence for trying to plot a coup after the 2022 election. But his political movement is literally breeding. His own family members were elected in the first round of voting on Sunday, including his wife Michelle, two of his sons, also his brother. Flavio will likely be very similar to his father. So he'll seek tougher line on crime. Flavio in his government program, he said that he will build five maximum security prisons very much in the model of El Salvador. He's also said that he's going to take a much harder line with the region's drug criminal organizations that Trump has also said should be treated like terrorist groups. We've seen many countries in South America move to the right and align with President Trump over recent years. But Brazil is the biggest economy in Latin America, the biggest country in Latin America. If Flavid does win the runoff on October the 25th, I think we're going to see closer relations between Brazilia and Washington for sure. Who order?