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As Brazilians go to the polls, the possibility of a win for Bolsonaro casts a nightmarish shadow over the continent and beyond. Support for the progressive sectors becomes now not just a necessity but an internationalist duty, says KEN LIVINGSTONE
AT THE CROSSROADS: A campaign rally for the Workers’ Party Fernando Haddad, in Sao Paulo, this Wednesday
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Eyes around the world will be on elections in Brazil, tomorrow, between Jair Bolsonaro of the far right and Fernando Haddad who is the left-wing Workers’ Party (PT) candidate.
Bolsonaro had a commanding lead of more than 16 per cent in the first round.
Alarm bells rang around the world this week when Bolsonaro chillingly said that if he was elected “leftists will have to... leave the country or go to jail,” adding “it will be a clean up, the likes of which has never been seen in Brazilian history,” and that “reds will be banished from the homeland.”
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