Bolsonaro and Haddad play their last cards before the ballot in Brazil – Elections in Brazil – 24 hours

The presidential candidates of of Brazil sent Saturday their last nods to the electorate on the eve of the vote: the far right and favorite by Jair Bolsonaro on the Internet; and his left-wing rival, Fernando Haddad, of the favela

The latest polls released on Saturday night allowed Bolsonaro to remain at the forefront of preferences with eight to ten points ahead of his opponent. (54% -46% according to Ibope and 55% -45% in Datafolha).

The reduction of a breach – which was 18 points two weeks ago – seems not to reach the dolphin of former incarcerated President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, because the balance is holding up in favor of the ex-captain of the army and supporter of the liberation of the port of arms, which claims to be able to "clean" Brazil of corruption, insecurity and "communism" ".

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] Haddad, 55, was nominated candidate in September, replacing Lula, who has been serving a 12-year prison sentence for April for corruption as part of the "Lava Jato" operation. which hit great personalities. Workers Party (PT) and its allies.

The former mayor of Sao Paulo (2012-2016) won 29% of the votes in the first round, against 46% for Bolsonaro.

The center-left political forces and party activists blamed the PT for failing to "mea culpa" for its mistakes and for distancing itself from the popular clbades, preventing Haddad from to form a "democratic front" for the party.

During his last election campaign, former minister Lula made a "march for peace" to Heliopolis, one of Sao Paulo's largest favelas. Several hundred followers accompanied him into the narrow streets of the neighborhood, in festive weather and dressed in white.

"The population becomes aware of the leap into the unknown that results in the candidacy of Bolsonaro … (…) We They are willing to sell a cat to a hare, a truculent person to a peaceful person, he said.

"The turnaround will come, Brazil is waking up."

The optimism of its activists increased, especially after receiving support from Former President of the Supreme Court Joaquim Barbosa, very popular among Brazilians for being the first black to lead the country's highest court, as well as to lead the "mensalao" trial, the first major corruption scandal that put Lula's troubled party in 2005.

"For the first time in 32 years of direct voting, a candidate frightens me, that's why I'm going to vote for Fernando Haddad," tweeted Barbosa

Emerson Santana, a 44-year-old resident of Heliopolis, walked enthusiastically with Haddad

"We are already going, we will win, democracy will prevail, not militarism", he told AFP.

But Haddad's spirit of return was hit hard in the afternoon, when Ciro Gomes, center-left, lost third in the first round with 12.47% of the votes, put end his hope of receiving his explicit support, considered essential to arrive Sunday with options.

"Of course everyone preferred that, with my style, I take sides for the campaign, but I do not want to do it," said Gomes in a video posted on his social networks, in which he announced only that he would vote. against intolerance. "

The elections" are not won "

While Bolsonaro was making the last steps of his campaign from home, in Rio de Janeiro, as he has done since he was stabbed at the 39, a rally on 6 September and spent three weeks hospitalized.

The far right regretted not being with people "for medical reasons" and asked his supporters to "not relax" [19659002] "The elections are not won, we must fight until the last moment (…) We will not give the other party the opportunity to say:" We won, it's is a comeback, "he reminded his fans during a show on Facebook.

Famous for his exalted rhetoric, fed up with chauvinistic, racist and homophobic comments, B Olsonaro tried to moderate the tone in the last few hours. In this last transmission, he also said: "We want a free Brazil that leaves prejudices: white, black, gay, straight, who knows if I'm gay, and if I was, what's the problem," he said, accompanied by the vice-elected Helio Negão, a black man

He also tried to dispel the fear of a return of the dark years of his government to the dark years of the military dictatorship (1964 -1985).

Something that does not seem to worry his followers, Saturday, they made a caravan to support him in Sao Paulo.

"I came because I want the president of Bolsonaro, we are working hard to clean up Brazil and get it out of Communist hands, and now we get it," said Dorival Andrade. , which participated in the shipment of about 500 vehicles.