Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro confident of poll win

Brasilia: Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency, marking a dramatic swing to the right in the world's fourth-largest democracy.

Bolsonaro's sudden rise has been propelled by the Leftist Workers Party (PT) that ran for 15 years in the past 15 years and was two years ago in the midst of the country's worst recession and political graft scandal.

His leftist rival Fernando Haddad, standing for the jailed PT founder and Brazilian trainer Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has been trailing Bolsonaro since the first-round vote three weeks ago.

"I want to take the PT out," said Celina Ceccon, who previously supported Lula and his successor, Dilma Rousseff, but voted for Bolsonaro in this election

"There was a lot of corruption, bad things, so much stealing." There was a change, "said the 74-year-old resident of the capital Brasilia.