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Fernando Haddad, Brazilian presidential candidate for the Workers Party, is wearing the Brazilian flag during an election rally in the Heliopolis slum in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Saturday, October 27, 2018. Mr. Haddad will face right-wing MP Jair Bolsonaro as President runoff Sunday. (Andre Penner / Associated Press)
SAO PAULO – At the last public appearance of a candidate for the Brazilian presidency prior to Sunday's election, Fernando Haddad, of left, warned voters that the proposals of his right-wing opponent to fight crime would only increase violence.
Haddad also promised to bring conciliation if he beat leader Jair Bolsonaro, staying at his home in Rio de Janeiro, talking to his constituents via social media.
Haddad, who according to the polls, is the loser of the second round, spoke at a rally in Heliopolis, the largest favela of Sao Paulo with more than 100,000 inhabitants. The violent areas of big cities gave Bolsonaro fewer votes in the first round of October 7 than the safer and richer areas.
"Arming the population, as my opponent suggests, will only increase the violence. Can you imagine children and women carrying weapons too? My opponent's ideas have already been tested in other countries and the number of homicides has only increased, "said Haddad.
Later, the candidate chosen by former imprisoned president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said that this Brazilian election would be different from any other if Bolsonaro lost at the last minute.
"It would be the victory of a project, not of a person or a party. It would be a vote for democracy and freedom, "said Haddad during a discussion on social media.
Two polls released later Saturday showed that Bolsonaro's advantage was once again down, but comfortable enough to win.
A Datafolha survey showed Bolsonaro with 55% and Haddad with 45. The pollster polled 18,371 voters on Friday and Saturday. The margin of error is two percentage points.
Haddad suffered a blow when the presidential candidate defeated, Ciro Gomes, a leftist party that finished the first round in third place with 12% of the vote, did not strongly support the candidate of the Workers Party.
"Everyone wanted my style to choose a camp and participate in the campaign," Gomes said in a video. "But I do not want to do this now for a very practical reason and I do not want to say it now. If I can not help, I do not want to interfere. "
Without explicit support from Gomes, Haddad winked surprisingly at Geraldo Alckmin, defeated presidential candidate and tipped right, claiming that he had inspired one of his proposals aimed at reduce the price of gasoline for cooking.
The leftist candidate also received two surprising approvals from a former chief justice and a former attorney general who cracked down on the Haddad workers' party. Joaquim Barbosa and Rodrigo Janot said Bolsonaro posed a threat to Brazilian democracy.
Although Bolsonaro stayed at home in Rio de Janeiro most of the day, his team of lawyers was active. The right-wing candidate filed a lawsuit in Brazil's highest electoral court to demand an investigation into Haddad and S.Paulo's Folha newspaper.
Bolsonaro says the newspaper falsely reported that businessmen illegally sponsored WhatsApp messages against Haddad in order to help Bolsonaro.
Folha's lawyer described Bolsonaro's claim as "a ridiculous fantasy".
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