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– Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world, one of the largest economies in the world and a major climate force. The Amazon, the largest cohesive tropical rain forest in the world, is in Brazil, said Lotten Collin.
One of the candidatesJair Bolsonaro said he wants to increase deforestation in the country. Bolsonaro spoke of leaving the Paris agreement stating that he wanted to develop mining in the rainforest.
"These are important issues for Swedes and Europeans because we buy a lot of soy and meat that Brazil exports, so we also have a role as consumers," explains Lotten Collin.
The second candidateFernando Haddad belongs to the Labor Party. They have been running Brazil for more than ten years.
Fernando Haddad is a university professor, former Minister of Education and was also Mayor of Sao Paulo, the largest city in Brazil.
"One could say that he is a kind of Brazilian Social Democrat, replacing former president Lula da Silva, who is imprisoned for corruption and therefore can not stand," said Lotten Collin.
Haddad has about 10 percentage points after the lead candidate Jair Bolsonaro, who belongs to the far right of Brazilian politics.
Jair Bolsonaro has been a former military and parliamentary member for 27 years, but according to Lotten Collin, he has not tabled any major legislative proposals or changes to Congress.
"He was unknown to the Brazilian public before the start of the election campaign and is known for his close ties with the military and the police and has always been considered their candidate," said Lotten Collin.
– He is now famous for his polemical statements about homosexuals, blacks, feminists at the end of the electoral movement.
"The son of Bolsonaro said for a few days that it would be easy to close the Supreme Court with the help of the army.
Such statements are worrying some Brazilians about democracy in the country, said Lotten Collin.
– Bolsonaro is one of those who support and honor the former military dictatorship in Brazil.
How is it going to be so good for him in the opinion?
"It depends on which group you are speaking to among those who support it," says Lotten Collin.
"What you usually hear from all who support him is that he is an outsider, and despite his 27 years of congress, he has managed to profile himself as a new politician, a new political force, because his Party is very small and has no executive power in Brazil.
"Even the statements he's made about some minority groups and climate issues are working well because they've been widely circulated in the media, just as we've seen in the past." United States with Donald Trump.
According to Lotten Collin Many supporters of Jair Bolsonaro said they did not have serious scandals related to corruption in his luggage.
– And he just says that it will reduce corruption, reduce the state, reduce the number of ministries, this kind of problems arise for many Brazilians who think that the state has become too big .
Jair Bolsonaro at great support among the free churches of Brazil.
"This has played a major role in his support in the urban subclass, many of which belong to free churches," said Lotten Collin.
– For the middle and upper classes, it is more about corruption and its promise to lower taxes, establishing various tax credits for companies very popular among the rich of Brazil.
What are the most important surveys?
"Value issues have been the subject of much attention," said Lotten Collin.
The Bolsonaro campaign is very much about family values.
He also spread false statements, for which he was also convicted by proxy.This was about htbq issues.
Bolsonaro said his opponent, Fernando Haddad, wanted four-year-olds to teach sex at school, an assertion that turned out to be false.
"The statement was widely heard by those who do not have access to mainstream media, but get their news via social media.
Democracy and the role of the army have been burning issues in the electoral movement. Former military Bolsonaro has banned the debate that he would comply with the Constitution and that he would not let the army take power.
– At the same time he said that many of his ministers will be military. He gave some double signals about it, "said Lotten Collin.
Brazil has been in recession for many years, but economic issues have fallen in the shadow of the electoral debate, Lotten Collin said.
"Economists talk about important issues around productivity, how to work more, how to fill more formal jobs, how to reform the pension system, but the political issues that really matter to the economy have not been many discussed, "said Lotten Collin, Ekot's Latin American correspondent.
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