The far right leads the Brazilian election and heads to the second round

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The far right leads the Brazilian election and heads to the second round







BRASILIA (Reuters) - Right-wing congressman Jair Bolsonaro took the lead in Brazil's presidential election on Sunday, but the competition is likely to extend to a second round of voting between him and former Sao Paulo mayor Fernando Haddad. according to exit surveys and initial results. 











Jair Bolsonaro, far-right legislator and presidential candidate of the Social Liberal Party (PSL), gets to cast his vote in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on October 7, 2018. REUTERS / Pilar Olivares





With 79 percent of the votes counted, Bolsonaro had received 48 percent of the valid votes, well above Haddad's 27 percent, but below the absolute majority needed to avoid a runoff on October 28. 

An exit poll of 30,000 voters conducted by the Ibope study institute suggested that Bolsonaro would win 45 percent of valid votes on Sunday, and 28 percent would go to Haddad. The survey had a margin of error of plus or minus two percentage points.  

Bolsonaro, a former army captain who praises dictatorships and swears a brutal crackdown on crime and graft, emerged in the latest opinion polls about a wave of antipathy toward the Haddad Workers' Party, whose leader is in jail for a conviction for corruption. 

Bolsonaro, 63, gained momentum after an almost fatal stabbing at a rally a month ago that prevented him from campaigning. He had appealed through social media for voters to grant him a first-round victory with a score of 50 percent. 









Fernando Haddad (C), presidential candidate of the Workers Left Party (PT) of Brazil, issues his vote in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on October 7, 2018. REUTERS / Amanda Perobelli



The supporters who gathered in front of his house in Rio de Janeiro waved the green and yellow national flag, singing "¡Nuestro presidente!" When he returned from the vote, accompanied by a nurse, in a convoy of black trucks. 

Haddad's campaign headquarters in a Sao Paulo hotel erupted in applause when the exit polls showed the race would go to a second round. Some recent polls have shown that he could beat Bolsonaro in the second round. 

Even so, the exit polls showed great victories at the state level by allies of Bolsonaro in surprises surprises and important defeats for the candidates of the Workers' Party, including the dismissed ex-president Dilma Rousseff who is running for a seat in the Senate . 









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Haddad, a former minister of education and one-term mayor of Sao Paulo, is in charge of the party's founder, former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is serving time for bribery and money laundering. 

Bolsonaro is mounting a wave of anger in the establishment by one of the largest political graft schemes in the world and the growing crime in the country with the highest number of murders in the world. His supporters blame the Workers' Party, which ruled Brazil for 13 of the past 15 years, along with reckless economic policies that contributed to Brazil's worst recession in a generation. 

In the most polarized election since the end of the military government in 1985, Bolsonaro is backed by a group of retired generals who have criticized the governments of the Workers Party 2003-2016 and publicly advocate military intervention if corruption continues. 

Graph: Surveys, issues and main candidates in the Brazilian elections - tmsnrt.rs/2Ixe0NI) 





Report by Anthony Boadle and Mateus Maia in Brasilia Additional reporting by Brad Haynes and Brad Brooks in Sao Paulo; Edited by Marguerita Choy and Cynthia Osterman





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