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27.10.2018 23.48
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After a difficult election campaign, Brazil today elects a new head of state. The extreme right Jair Bolsonaro is the favorite of the second round. The ex-military have provoked again and again failures against the women, the blacks and the gays and its sympathy for the military dictatorship (1964-1985). However, he is taking advantage of the anger of many Brazilians for recent scandals of corruption and the intensification of violence.
The leftist candidate, Fernando Haddad, is unlikely to oppose this change of mood. The image of the Labor Party is badly damaged after the biggest corruption scandal in Latin America. The political nurturing father of Haddad, former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, is imprisoned for corruption.
In the event of an electoral victory, Bolsonaro wants to liberalize arms legislation, oppose same-bad marriage and abortion and limit the rights of indigenous communities in the Amazon. Observers fear an increase in violence as well as negative effects on the international climate protection and social situation in the largest country of South America.
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