Brazil / Presidential: Bolsonaro launches the far right in the big bath

Sulfurous right-wing MEP Jair Bolsonaro is to make Sunday his candidacy for the October presidential election in Brazil, with a great popularity on social networks and polls that put him in second place turn.

With less than three months of an election that looks very uncertain and polarized, this former paratrooper who willingly displays his nostalgia for the military dictatorship (1964-1985) causes a strong rejection from a part of the population, disgusted by his racist, misogynistic and homophobic slippage.

But he is seen by many Brazilians as the savior of the homeland undermined by repeated corruption scandals.

Sunday morning, Jair Bolsonaro intends to rally his troops to Rio de Janeiro, his electoral stronghold, for an agreement at which he is to be officially designated as the candidate of the Social Liberal Party (PSL) he joined in March, has he has changed many times during his political career

"I have people who support me all over Brazil. There are even some who love me, "he told reporters on Thursday in Goiania (center-west), where he reiterated his promise to expand access to the gun-carrying area. controversial, by encouraging a little girl to imitate the shape of a pistol with her fingers

Despite all the controversies, Jair Bolsonaro is leading the voting intentions for the first round, unless the former president of left Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in prison since April for corruption, is not allowed to vote, an option deemed unlikely by most badysts.

Pollsters do not see the far-right candidate triumph in the second round

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But the one that his supporters call "the myth" is far from being dismantled.

One of his main badets: he is one of the few leading political figures ever splashed by corruption scandals, he even managed to to overcome part of the mistrust of the business community

However, his controversial positions and provocative style play him out. He finds it difficult to find a name of vice-president to compose his ticket, having met with several successive refusals.

Latest: General Augusto Heleno Ribeiro Pereira, former commander-in-chief of the UN mission forces in Haiti in 2004 and 2005, whose party refused to join forces with the PSL.

He should fall back Janaina Paschoal, a lawyer with an explosive personality, without political experience, but famous for the key role she played in 2016 in the dismissal of the left-wing president Dilma Rousseff, Lula's dauphine.

" I have the feeling that it wants to help transform Brazil, we drag on the phone, "Bolsonaro told the O Globo newspaper on Friday.

Without being able to ally himself with a major party, the MP should have only eight seconds of television coverage for his campaign spots, the time allotted being tied to the weight of the coalition in Parliament. [19659003] To feed his strategy of rejection of traditional mainstream media, which he accuses of disseminating false information, to bet more on social networks, with his Facebook profile followed by more than 5 million Internet users.

/ 07/2018 05:46:36 –
Rio de Janeiro (AFP) –
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