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Weekly Report - 25 October 2018 (WR-18-42)
BRAZIL: Bolsonaro poised for likely victory
“On Sunday we are going to win.” It was not presidential frontrunner Jair Bolsonaro, but his opponent Fernando Haddad who tweeted this with less than a week to go before the second round of Brazil’s presidential election, on 28 October. While the election was initially described as the most uncertain in Brazil’s recent history, the result of the run-off has seemed set in stone from the moment the first-round results were revealed. And it is not expected to be in Haddad’s favour.
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