 Rede Globo is accused of helping to elect presidential candidate Fernando Collor de Mello (owner of TV Gazeta in state of Alagoas, a Rede Globo affiliate) in the 1989 presidential election, by manipulating segments of the last, televised, pre-recorded debate between Collor and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the left-wing candidate from the Worker's Party.At the time of the upcoming debate, already in the second round of voting (runoff), the polls showed a technical tie between the two candidates; the televised confrontation would soon be a decisive factor in the race.Eventually, Lula did not do well in the actual debate itself, and his own party acknowledged as much.