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Weekly Report - 12 November 2020 (WR-20-45)
BRAZIL: Election day approaches
Brazilians will go to the polls on 15 November to elect a total of over 5,500 mayors and some 57,000 municipal councillors across the country. Held every four years, halfway through the presidential term, municipal elections in Brazil are usually taken as a popularity gauge of the federal government in Brasília. The latest opinion polls show that neither candidates supported by President Jair Bolsonaro nor those from his left-wing rival, the struggling Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), look set to claim any big victories in the country’s state capitals – where most of the mayoral elections are in any case expected to go to a run-off, due on 29 November.
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