How the election works
Brazil’s president is elected directly by the 156 million voters; there is no electoral college and no role for the legislature. A candidate needs more than 50% of the vote to be elected. If this does not happen in the first round, the top two candidates will go into a runoff election at the end of the month.
The leading candidates in 2022 are the incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro, a rightwing populist, and the former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula, a leftwinger who introduced radical anti-poverty measures during his two terms in office.
