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Cristina Gozdal voted Sunday morning in the yellow and green colors of the national flag of Brazil and hoped that her country would be on the verge of electing its own Donald Trump.
"He thinks as people think," said Gozdal, a 45-year-old systems badyst, about Jair Bolsonaro, far-right favorite to become Brazil's next leader, while she Voted a few blocks from Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro.
Around Gozdal, in front of Infante Dom Henrique school in Rio, other voters have expressed their support for the former paratrooper and professional polemicist who is about to lead the world's fourth largest democracy, despite – or maybe – to be because of – his tongue filled with venom. and his nostalgia often expressed for dictatorship.
On the eve of the elections, the elections gave Bolsonaro an 8-10% advantage over leftist rival Fernando Haddad, although the Workers Party (PT) candidate has gained ground in recent days.
Monica Gamero, a 48-year-old official, said she believed Bolsonaro would improve education and fight crime. "Our country is in moral, cultural and security disorder," she complains.
Retired Denir Quintanilha said he voted angrily against the PT, accusing critics of leading Brazil into economic recession and the quagmire of corruption. "We are totally against the PT," said the 65-year-old.
Elisabete Pereira, a 56-year-old estate agency, said the Brazilians were tired of being ruled by "thieves".
During his visit to Heliopolis on Saturday, Bolsonaro's rival, Fernando Haddad, told reporters that he thought the voters were becoming aware of the "jump in the dark" that represented his radical opponent. "This is a dangerous and truculent person," said Haddad, who officially became a PT candidate only last month, after former imprisoned president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was prevented to introduce oneself.
Aloízio Mercadante, a PT veteran and former Brazilian chief of staff, told the Guardian he was confident of a turnaround. "The other side is on the defensive … we are on the offensive," he said.
While Brazil was striving to come out of an unprecedented recession and get rid of a vast corruption scandal, Mr. Mercadante had realized that voters were angry at politicians, but that Bolsonaro represented "the worst possible adventure that Brazilian democracy can live".
But Haroldo Carrilho, a popcorn seller who parked his car in front of Gonzaguinha school, said that even in Heliopolis, the traditional stronghold of the PT, some were so fed up with their political leaders that they were willing to take the risk .
"In Lula's day, everyone favela It was the PT, "said Carrilho, 58. Many are now turning to Bolsonaro, he said, as the PT had lost touch with the poor. "They abandoned us."
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