But by 2016, evangelical pastors across the nation were stumping for the impeachment of his handpicked successor, Dilma Rousseff, before migrating to the far-right Bolsonaro-who often claims to be on the correct side of a divine battle between good and evil. Lula was first elected in 2002 with the support of several prominent evangelical leaders.

The political alignment of evangelical voters has varied over the years. 20-22 poll by Datafolha said that only 50 percent of evangelical voters planned to back him, while 32 percent planned to support his leading opponent, former leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Evangelicals are on track to become Brazil’s largest religious group within the next decade and currently make up some 30 percent of the population.īolsonaro has struggled to maintain the same level of evangelical support ahead of Sunday’s presidential election, however. In a campaign drenched in socially conservative religious imagery, Bolsonaro earned more than twice as many evangelical votes as did his leftist opponent in the presidential runoff.

Jair Bolsonaro’s 2018 election to the Brazilian presidency was the apex of political efforts to cultivate a U.S.-style Christian evangelical right in the country.

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