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Leftist candidate accuses far-right frontrunner of smear campaign

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Channel: FRANCE 24 English · 2018 · News & Politics

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Already feeling victorious, gung-ho supporters of Jair Bolsonaro gathered at Copacabana beach.Some have swung from the left to the far-right. SOT supporter "The first time Lula ran for president, I voted for him because I thought he was going to change things. I  regretted it. Brazil cannot be like Venezuela. Bolsonaro is the only candidate we can trust."With the candidate still recovering from a stab wound he suffered during a rally, his son Flavio, himself running for the Senate, has been the face of the campaign. Despite his minimising  rape, defending gender pay gap and pledging to loosen gun laws, increasing numbers of undecided voters, including women, are turning to the far-right candidate. (DLS) The latest polls show Bolsonaro keeping his lead over the Workers'' Party''s Fernando Haddad by 9 percentage points.The leftist candidate had initially avoided direct attacks on the frontrunner, but in a change of strategy, Lula''s successor accusede  Bolsonaro of sending false WhatsApp messages to derail his campaign. SOT  Fernando Haddad, Workers'' Party presidential candidate "The time has come to defend ourselves in this final stretch, it''s very serious what''s happening on What''s App.  Some of them have already been identified as Fake news"Sunday''s vote is shaping up to be the most polarised election since Brazil''s return to democracy. One of the smaller candidates, centre-left Ciro Gomes, warns the competing policies of the two main rivals  are pulling the nation apart. SOT Ciro Gomes, center-left presidential candidate of PDT party"Brazilian politics are failing miserably, and the leftist camp failed miserably for the past 13, 15 years, though that doesn''t mean it didn''t do anything good."If no one wins an outright majority, a runoff vote will take place on the 28th of October.  Polls place Haddad ahead of Bolsonaro in a potential second round... but a lot can still change.

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