Brazil’s current and the former presidents are the only two candidates with a realistic chance of topping the polls in the vote tomorrow, 2 October. The incumbent’s hopes of victory rest on an unlikely alliance of evangelical Protestants and ultra-conservative Catholics.
29 September 2022, The Tablet
Instability in Brazil as the people prepare to go to the polls
Bolsonaro, who won the presidency in 2018, has adopted the slogan, “Brazil above everything, God above everyone.”
Presidential contenders Bolsonaro and Lula.
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