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Jair Bolsonaro, the far right candidate who leads the presidential elections in Brazil, was stabbed in the state of Minas Gerais just one month before the elections.
Bolsonaro was recovering at the hospital from a "only superficial" injury, tweeted his son, Flavio, who is himself a candidate for the Brazilian Senate.
Videos shared on social networks showed the moment when Bolsonaro was attacked while it was worn on the shoulders of supporters during an event in the city of Juiz de Fora, about 200 km north from Rio de Janeiro.
Bolsonaro waved to the crowd as he suddenly grabbed his abdomen and screamed in pain before falling back into the arms of his entourage. The O Globo newspaper reported that he was wearing a bulletproof vest, but that he was injured just below.
A spokesman for the police confirmed that the attacker was in detention.
In a particularly unpredictable campaign, Bolsonaro polarized his view with his calls for looser rifle laws, his attacks on the left and his praise for the military dictatorship that ran Brazil between 1964 and 1985, torturing thousands of opponents and by running hundreds of others.
Bolsonaro is scheduled to appear before the Supreme Court for a speech that prosecutors have declared inciting hatred and rape.
However, the increase in violent crime, anger following repeated corruption scandals and an effective operation on social media have allowed him to gain support and he is second in the polls of the former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. for corruption. Lula continues to appeal.
The other candidates quickly denounced the attack.
Fernando Haddad, who is likely to replace Lula as a candidate for the presidency of the Workers' Party, said the attack was a "shame" and a "horror".
"Politics is done through dialogue and convincingly, never with hate," tweeted Gerado Alckmin, former governor of Sao Paulo, who targeted the negative ads on Bolsonaro.
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