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BRAZIL HEADS FOR RUN-OFF AS PRESIDENT BOLSONARO BEATS POLL EXPECTATIONS

BRAZIL HEADS FOR RUN-OFF AS PRESIDENT BOLSONARO BEATS POLL EXPECTATIONS

Rio de Janeiro Brazil’s plaintively divisive presidential election is headed for a runoff on October 30 as peremptory Jair Bolsonaro beat prospects to finish a closer- than- anticipated alternate to frontal- runner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Lula, the stager leftist seeking a presidential comeback, had48.4 percent of the vote to43.2 percent for the far-right […]