BRAZIL: Elections: Voters choose between Bolsonaro and Haddad

Millions of Brazilians voted yesterday to choose between two very different politicians to be their next president. Far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro faces leftist Fernando Haddad of the Workers’ Party in the second and final round of presidential elections. While polls have been narrowing, Mr Bolsonaro remains in the lead. The election has been over-shadowed by […]

Millions of Brazilians voted yesterday to choose between two very different politicians to be their next president.
Far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro faces leftist Fernando Haddad of the Workers’ Party in the second and final round of presidential elections.
While polls have been narrowing, Mr Bolsonaro remains in the lead.
The election has been over-shadowed by corruption scandals and a knife attack on Mr Bolsonaro in which he lost 40% of his blood and needed emergency surgery.
63-year-old ex-army captain Mr Bolsonaro is from the small, conservative Social Liberal Party. His provocative statements on abortion, race, migration, homosexuality and gun laws have earned him the nickname “Trump of the Tropics.”
55-year-old Mr Haddad, a former Sao Paulo mayor and education minister, is the son of a family of Lebanese immigrants.
Two final opinion polls released on Saturday showed that support for Mr Haddad had increased, though Mr Bolsonaro was still expected to win about 55% of the vote.