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To do this, the new government will have to face the discontent of the privileged classes, who will lose some of their income. If it doesn't, it runs the risk of not bringing the improvements it promises to the poorest. Even if it manages to produce a new cycle of inclusion, the government will have to take the next step. The set of policies that could structure an urban welfare state was not prominent in the campaign, although it is present in the formulations of PT sectors. If the next lulist cycle reduces poverty and generates a new massive migration to the middle classes, what will life be like for those who climb a step? How to create a model of upward mobility that fits the budget of these sectors, structured around the idea of rights, shared urban life and wide access to public services? Another audience among which Lula stood out in the last elections was that of the young.
In most polls, she won by a good margin among the under-24s. This was south africa phone number list the segment in which the candidate Ciro Gomes obtained the highest percentages. There is an important part of the country's youth with progressive values that is backing the PT as an electoral alternative. The aspirations of these young people were expressed in the demonstrations of 2013 - education and health "FIFA quality", public transport with low and efficient fares, confrontation with corruption, democratization of the State -, in the feminist spring and in the student occupations of the last decade.
On the other hand, Bolsonaro had his greatest strength among the evangelical electorate and in the southern and central-western states. The extreme right-wing president brought together in his candidacy the voters who are at the base of the so-called benches of the ox, the Bible and the bullet (BBB). During the governments of Lula and Rousseff, these groups accommodated themselves, in one way or another, in the broad ruling coalition. Representatives of the agricultural sector headed the Ministry of Agriculture and developed policies favorable to their businesses. The parties and the television networks of the neo-Pentecostal groups were important allies of the government.
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