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Never since the return of democracy to Brazil in the 1980s has the first-round loser managed to bounce back.Josias Silva, a 61-year-old truck driver, voiced confidence that his 80-year-old president, who was first elected in 2002, would win a fourth non-consecutive term. He carried a homemade sign to the carnival-like procession reading: \u201cLula re-elected. Tomorrow will be a new day.\u201dLuiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva waves to supporters on Saturday. Photograph: Dhavid Normando/AP\u201cThe people have woken up,\u201d Silva said of the large pro-Lula street protests that have swept Brazil since the leftist\u2019s first-round defeat, many led by students.\u201cYoung people know we need this victory because otherwise we will have dictatorship again \u2013 and we don\u2019t want dictatorship. We don\u2019t want hatred. We don\u2019t want guns. We want a country of love,\u201d added Silva, celebrating the large number of people who came to witness one of the final presidential campaign rallies in Lula\u2019s storied 50-year political career.\u201cThere\u2019s never been a demonstration like this one. This is the biggest protest in the history of Brazil. And we are going to win tomorrow with more than 60% of the votes,\u201d Silva claimed.Polls suggest a far tighter margin and most analysts see Bolsonaro, whose father, Jair Bolsonaro, was president from 2019 to 2022, as the slight favourite, having sold himself to voters as someone who will tackle chronic levels of violent crime with an iron fist.However, in recent days Lula has appeared to regain the initiative and climb in the polls, amid a succession of scandals involving his rightwing foe. Last week the Brazilian magazine Piau\u00ed claimed that at the height of Brazil\u2019s 2020 coronavirus outbreak, Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro attended a boat party attended by sex workers and vaccine lobbyists hoping to strike a deal with the government of his father.People watch a televised debate between Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro and his election rival on Friday. Photograph: Adriano Machado/ReutersSome experts speculate a Lula comeback may be possible. At the Copacabana rally \u2013 which Rio\u2019s City Hall said attracted about 1.1 million people \u2013 activists unfurled an enormous yellow and green banner declaring: \u201cWE ARE GOING TO TURN THIS AROUND!\u201dOn Saturday afternoon, Lula attended an even larger rally on Paulista Avenue, in the heart of Brazil\u2019s biggest city, S\u00e3o Paulo.\u201cI\u2019m super excited. Lula\u2019s going to win,\u201d said Marta Moraes, a 59-year-old restaurateur, as she joined Saturday\u2019s demo in Rio.Moraes said the election was not about left versus right. \u201cWe\u2019ve nothing against the right \u2026 what we\u2019re against is Bolsonarismo,\u201d she said, tears filling her eyes as she recalled how Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro\u2019s father botched the response to Covid during his chaotic 2019-2022 administration.\u201cI lost four members of my family because of Bolsonaro\u2019s neglect,\u201d Moraes said.Lula supporters on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. Photograph: Agust\u00edn Marcarian/ReutersJair Bolsonaro is serving a 27-year prison sentence for plotting a coup after he lost the 2022 election to Lula. Many Brazilian democrats fear he will be released \u2013 and could even return to government \u2013 if his son wins. Reports in the Brazilian press suggest several of Bolsonaro\u2019s fellow plotters \u2013 who are now in prison or hiding in exile \u2013 may be given top military and police jobs in a Bolsonaro administration.Cammy Marinho, a 49-year-old DJ and activist, said: \u201cI\u2019m here to prevent democracy becoming extinct \u2013 which is what the Bolsonaro family wants\u201d.Marinho said she had spent the past fortnight fighting to persuade people who voted for Bolsonaro, or did not vote in the first round, to back Lula.\u201cIt\u2019s non-stop work: in the bakery, in the supermarket, on the underground \u2013 whenever you feel there is an opening to talk to someone and show to them the reality, everything that Lula has done and is doing for the people and everything that this [Bolsonaro] family has done against the people,\u201d she said.Many marchers were part of the so-called \u201cLula\u2019s Army\u201d \u2013 a 10 million-member WhatsApp group that was created after the first round in the hope of turning the election around.\u201cBeing a soldier in Lula\u2019s army \u2026 means fighting for Brazilian democracy. This isn\u2019t a normal election,\u201d said Isabella Gaze, 64, a retired teacher and one of the group\u2019s members.\u201cThey constantly claim Lula is corrupt. But the truth is that they represent the most rotten and worst part of Brazilian politics. This is what we are fighting against now,\u201d Gaze said of the Bolsonaros.Many of the faces on Copacabana beach were teenagers, including 14-year-old Heitor Lopes da Silva. Silva had come from the city of Duque de Caxias in his wheelchair, with a placard that said: \u201cLula, I\u2019m a person with a disability and I\u2019m here to support you.\u201d\u201cMy whole life I\u2019ve believed Lula was a good president. [Bolsonaro] represents the destruction of Brazil \u2026. he represents sadness and death,\u201d he said of the Bolsonaro-era Covid catastrophe.Some Lula supporters believe he can overturn the lead his rival secured in the first round of voting. Photograph: Agust\u00edn Marcarian/ReutersLarge crowds of Bolsonaro supporters also hit the streets, including in Belo Horizonte, the capital of Minas Gerais state, which has Brazil\u2019s second-largest electorate after S\u00e3o Paulo, and is a key bellwether. No presidential candidate has ever won the presidency without securing Minas Gerais, where Bolsonaro led by just under 5% in the first round.Thousands of Bolsonaristas gathered to see their candidate in a palm-lined plaza called Pra\u00e7a da Liberdade. To the booming sound of AI-generated funk carioca tracks praising Bolsonaro, a sea of supporters dressed in Brazil\u2019s yellow football jersey waved Brazilian flags \u2013 and many of the United States too.\u201cThe US is a great nation. Who wouldn\u2019t want to be aligned with them?\u201d said 56-year-old cosmetics entrepreneur Marcos Antonio, holding a flag that merged the emblems of both countries.\u201cI don\u2019t want an alliance with Cuba or Venezuela. I want to move forward,\u201d Antonio added. When reminded that Venezuela was currently aligned with the US after Donald Trump\u2019s January invasion, he said: \u201cTrue. But for now, a fully right-wing government hasn\u2019t been installed yet. It\u2019s in transition.\u201dBolsonaro supporters, some with the flags of the US, Israel and Brazil, also held last-minute rallies on Saturday. 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