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Brazil on Fire: Elections update with BrasilWire’s Brian Mier
The first round of Brazil’s elections has come and gone. As expected, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was the big winner, with 48%. But he fell short of winning outright. Current President Jair Bolsonaro exceeded expectations and came in just a handful of points behind the former president. And it’s going to mean weeks of intense campaigning as Bolsonaro has now become a real contender for the second-round election at the end of the month.
In this first update to Brazil on Fire, we look at what it all means and how things stand ahead of the runoff election on Oct. 30. In…
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