Lula 'wins' in Rome with more than 53% of valid votes

Brazilians living in the Rome Region, Italy, gave Lula the victory. He won in all 19 polling stations. Due to the time difference, voting ended at 17pm (12pm Brasília time).

In the Italian capital, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) received 2.294 votes (53,1% of valid votes). The current president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) totaled 1.351 of the votes (31.2%).

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The results were fixed in front of the Brazilian embassy in Rome.

According to the Italian National Statistics Institute (Istat), 50.666 Brazilians reside in Italy (data from January 2021), but, according to the Overseas Electoral Registry Office, in Brasília, 20.972 Brazilian voters in Italy were eligible to vote.

Brazilians have two consular jurisdictions, respectively in Milan, in the north, and in Rome, in the center of the country. Milan's votes had not yet been released at the time of writing this report.

Bolsonaro won in Rome in 2018

In the first round of the 2018 Elections, the then candidate Jair Bolsonaro (PSL) received 1.607 votes in the Rome polling station (47,25%). Fernando Haddad, from PT, won 663 votes (19,49%).

In the second round, Bolsonaro received 57,52% of the votes (1.755), while Fernando Haddad received 1.296 votes (42,48%).