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One is a far-right populist who wants to clean Brazil, the other a left-wing political heir of a popular – but imprisoned – former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
On October 28, the 147 million voters in Brazil will have to decide which will be their next president.
– Jair Bolsonaro –
Jair Bolsonaro, from the far right, has built an image of political outsider ready to break the barracks.
It's a feat, because unlike Donald Trump, Bolsonaro is a long-time politician.
This seven-term Congressman has few legislative initiatives, but has been criticized for his intolerant words of reprimanding women, gays and blacks, while speaking fondly of the dictatorship. 1964-1985, for which he was captain.
"The mistake of the dictatorship," he said two years ago, "was to torture and not to kill."
Bolsonaro however promised that if he was elected, he would rule "with authority, but not with authoritarianism".
Born 63 years ago into a Catholic family of Italian origin, Bolsonaro served in the army before starting his political career in 1988 as a city councilor in Rio.
Two years later, he was elected to the federal House of Commons, where he has been since.
During a relationship and two weddings, he fathered five children: four sons (including three politicians) and – in what he called a moment of "weakness", a girl.
– Fernando Haddad –
The Left Labor Party appealed to Haddad late in the match to replace his favorite candidate, Lula, who is serving a 12-year prison sentence for corruption.
Initially, Haddad is sold as "Lula Man" to take advantage of the great popularity of the former president. This helped him in the polls and in relative darkness as a former mayor of Sao Paulo and, before that, Minister of Education in the Lula government.
But after Brazil's first round of elections this year – and in the midst of Bolsonaro's incessant attacks highlighting the corruption of the Workers' Party – Haddad tried to make himself known while reducing the image of Lula in his campaign.
More recently, he began to emphasize what he said was Bolsonaro's threat to Brazilian democracy.
A graduate in law, economics and philosophy, Haddad, 53, had hoped to fall behind in publicly debating Bolsonaro.
But his rival from the far right rejected this idea, preferring to duel on Twitter and Facebook.
Haddad, a passionate guitarist, is married to a dentist; they have two children. He told the daily El Pais two years ago that he saw himself as a "political being", impregnated with public life since his university years.
"I'm not an anxious person," he said. "I'm waiting for things to happen to make decisions."
– Race comrades –
Unsurprisingly, Bolsonaro chose as vice-president a retired general, Hamilton Mourao, 65 years old.
Perhaps also unsurprisingly, Mourao himself has a history of making controversial comments while extolling the military's justice.
He made racist remarks about the indigenous population of Brazil – of which he is partly a part – and about blacks.
And last month he caused an uproar when he said that children raised by single mothers tended to join drug gangs.
Haddad's racing companion could not be more different. Manuela of Avila, 37, has studied journalism and is a state legislator within the Communist Party of Brazil.
A so-called "feminist and revolutionary", she strongly defended herself against criticism when she was photographed two years ago breastfeeding her granddaughter to her state's legislature .
D'Avila has also been approved by Lula, who has described her as representing the new generation of the political left.
MP from 2007 to 2015, she was elected to a second term with the highest number of votes among MPs.
The Brazilians go to the polls on October 28, 2018 to choose between two very different candidates: the leftist Fernando Haddad (left) of the Workers Party and the far-right populist Jair Bolsonaro (right), both seen here in pictures.
The choice of Jair Bolsonaro's vice-president, Hamilton Mourao (left), is a former radical general, while Fernando Haddad's vice-presidential candidate, Manuela d'Avila (right), is young member of the Brazilian Communist Party who calls himself a "feminist and revolutionary". & # 39;
