Weekly Report - 21 October 2010 (WR-10-42)

Brazil's presidential election is starting to resemble an episode of the 'Wacky Races' cartoon series, with both camps preferring to play dirty tricks on each other rather than debating actual policy proposals. The supreme electoral court (TSE, in the Portuguese acronym), meanwhile, has not been consistent with its rulings to prevent the deterioration in standards of the run-off campaign.