The main Brazilian candidate will skip the first televised debate for the second round.
The main Brazilian candidate will skip the first televised debate for the second round.
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The favorite in BrazilThe second presidential round announced on Wednesday that the first televised debate will be skipped before October 28. choice While recovering from being stabbed.
The doctors of far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro said he was not well enough to participate in Thursday's debate. He has skipped other debates since he was stabbed in a campaign rally on September 6 before the first round of the presidential contest.
Bolsonaro, who left the hospital on September 29, won the first round on Sunday by obtaining 46 percent of the vote. He was followed by Fernando Haddad, from the left, with 29 percent, and advanced to the second round.
Bolsonaro's doctors said he will have another physical evaluation on October 18, and then a decision will be made about whether he can appear in the remaining debates.
The television network said later that it plans to hold its presidential debate on October 19.
It is not mandatory that the candidates of the Brazilian presidential elections participate in the debates.
Haddad told reporters that he would go to a hospital to discuss Bolsonaro if necessary.
"He has to debate, I'm willing to go to a hospital to discuss it," Haddad said. "He said he does not want to be under stress, I will not stress him, I'll talk as calmly as possible, I will not raise my voice, I will not even look at him if that's something that worries me." the."
Bolsonaro, meanwhile, attacked Haddad on Twitter, calling him "a puppet of an imprisoned criminal."
"The time is near," the former army officer wrote to Haddad.
Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is in jail, could not run because of a corruption conviction and chose Haddad to replace him as a candidate of the Workers' Party.
Last Thursday, while six candidates debated on TV Globo, Bolsonaro gave an interview to TV Records. Since winning the first round, their communication has been mainly through social networks and interviews with friendly media.
The first Datafolha survey after the first round was published, with Bolsonaro with a great advantage.
The right-wing candidate won 58 percent, with Haddad 42 points. The survey interviewed 3,235 people on Wednesday and has a margin of error of 2 percentage points.
Haddad was backed by defeated leftist candidate Ciro Gomes, who finished third with 12 percent in Sunday's vote, and his Brazilian Labor Party. The union leaders did the same. All those movements were widely expected.
The candidate also said that he was visited by members of the Brazilian right-wing social-democratic party, which had rivaled the Workers' Party in the presidential elections since 1994.
Geraldo Alckmin, who ran as a candidate for Social Democracy in the last elections, obtained less than 5 percent of the vote.
Also on Wednesday, The Associated Press obtained documents showing that federal prosecutors are investigating Bolsonaro's economic adviser as part of a fraud investigation into the pension funds of several state-owned companies. Bolsonaro has made the fight against corruption a centerpiece of his campaign.
The documents say that there is "relevant circumstantial evidence" that Paulo Guedes may have participated in a fraud. In the documents, the prosecutors pointed out that a fund administered by Guedes invested in a company that later bought another company that could have been a shell and that repeatedly recorded losses.
Guedes did not respond to a request for comment.
Bolsonaro, which is strongly favored by the financial markets of Brazil, had the opposite impact on Wednesday. The candidate said in the interviews that his privatization plans were more modest than the brokers expected, which led to Sao Paulo stock Exchange Fall 2.79 percent.
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