Brazil's left-wing hopes of catching Bolsonaro weaken on the eve of the vote.

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Brazil's left-wing hopes of catching Bolsonaro weaken on the eve of the vote.







BRASILIA (Reuters) - The chances of leftist presidential candidate Fernando Haddad reducing the advantage of right-wing forward Jair Bolsonaro took a hit when he failed to gain crucial support on Saturday, a day before the two face off in a second round. choice.  











Supporters of Jair Bolsonaro, far-right legislator and presidential candidate of the Liberal Social Party (PSL), attend an election campaign rally in Brasilia, Brazil, on October 27, 2018. REUTERS / Adriano Machado





The former center-left candidate Ciro Gomes said in a video on social networks that he would not take sides in the election campaign, withholding support from Haddad from the Workers' Party (PT). 

Gomes, former governor of the state of Ceará in the northeast, has influence in the poorest region of Brazil. His support could have given Haddad a great boost in the most polarized election of the South American country in a generation. 

Haddad reduced Bolsonaro's lead to 12 percentage points in the latest opinion poll on Thursday and hoped to add another 4 points to gain enough momentum to catch Bolsonaro. The final voter surveys will be published later on Saturday. 

Haddad failed to get Gomes to support him, but won the endorsement on Saturday of Brazil's best YouTube presenter, Felipe Neto, who has 27.7 million followers on his channel. A popular anti-corruption judge, Joaquim Barbosa, who imprisoned several PT leaders for corruption, also left Haddad. 

Gomes finished third in the first round of voting on October 7 with 12 percent of the vote, behind 46 percent of Bolsonaro and 29 percent of Haddad. Gomes hoped to be the standard-bearer of the left, but was overtaken by imprisoned PT leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is serving a 12-year prison sentence for corruption and anointed Haddad as his replacement. 

Bolsonaro, a former army captain, is about to become Brazil's first far-right president since the end of the military dictatorship of 1964-1985. The seven-term congressman, 63, has pledged to end crime and corruption, and presents himself as the anti-establishment candidate for voters who are fed up with political crimes and violent crimes. 

Bolsonaro's sudden rise comes as Brazil finds itself in its worst recession and is embroiled in its biggest corruption scandal after the leftist PT led the government for 13 of the past 15 years. 

Until his presidential career, Bolsonaro was best known for defending the old military regime and its use of torture. He has faced accusations for his misogynistic, racist and homophobic speeches.  

The Supreme Court rejected the charge of racism, but has not ruled on a charge of incitement to rape in a case in which she told a fellow legislator that she was not pretty enough to rape her. He called the case political persecution. 

"SWEETENING" BOLSONARO 

A week ago, Bolsonaro promised to expel all the "red" leftists of Brazil or imprison them, harsh words that probably contributed to the narrowing of his leadership. 

YouTuber Neto said he had been neutral until then. "Everything changed when (Bolsonaro) said he would sweep opponents out of the country or in jail. "In 16 years of PT I have been robbed, but they have never threatened me," said Neto on Twitter. 

In the last two days of the campaign, Bolsonaro has sounded more moderate in his statements, backing a plan to follow the example of United States President Donald Trump and get Brazil out of the Paris agreement on climate change. 









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On Friday he told the people of the Xingu tribes that they were entitled to collect royalties for mining and hydroelectric power generation in their reserves, a proposal welcomed by some natives but rejected by anthropologists and environmentalists who see the tribes as Last guardians of the Amazon rainforest and its biodiversity. 

"You're as Brazilian as any of us," he said in a video posted on social media. "I want you to have the right to use your land and exploit its biodiversity and mineral wealth." 

In his last campaign hours in Sao Paulo, Haddad accused the Bolsonaro camp of "sweetening" his candidate so that what he was not appeared. "He is a truculent and dangerous person, and that is how he should be presented to the nation," he said. 





Report of Anthony Boadle in Brasilia and Eduardo Simões in São Paulo; Edited by Marguerita Choy and David Gregorio.





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