After the first round of the election, held earlier this month, the democracy activist was left trailing the incumbent by more than 15 points.
The army is supposedly the guardian of the revolution, overseeing the transition to democracy – the first round of parliamentary elections are to be held at the end of the month.
During the last weeks of the first round of the campaign, I watched a vibrant democracy at work.
Jair Bolsonaro, a right-wing presidential candidate who supported the country's former military dictatorship and poses a threat to the country's democracy, won the first round of elections on Oct. 7.
Unlike its volatile and unstable Andean neighbors, Brazil has consolidated a credible democracy and recently concluded the first round of its presidential vote.
The first round of voting in April was hailed as a victory for democracy, after voters turned out in unexpectedly high numbers and the results were broadly accepted by all candidates.
This has been the case since the results of the first round of presidential elections were announced, but this week the country's beleaguered transition to democracy was dealt a body blow.
New chancellor Christian Kern, brought in after the SPÖ's disastrous performance in the first round of the presidential election forced Werner Faymann's resignation, has given many liberals hope that social democracy can regain its dynamism.
Too many Western commentators mistook Mugabe's ineptitude in rigging the first round of Zimbabwe's election for a general lack of ruthlessness or even a drift toward democracy.
During the first round of globalization at the turn of the 20th Century, Sun Yat Sen tried to blend the institutions of Western democracy with Confucian meritocracy.
During the first round of globalization at the opening turn of the 20th Century, Sun Yatsen tried to blend the institutions of Western democracy with Confucian meritocracy.
