The Workers’ Party was at the centre of that investigation, and it has struggled to stage a comeback with Mr Haddad. Supporters of Jair Bolsonaro celebrate in front of his house in Rio de Janeiro (Ricardo Borges/AP)Though they come from opposite sides of the political spectrum, both Mr Bolsonaro and Mr Haddad ran campaigns based on nostalgia for a better time. Mr Bolsonaro frequently evoked the country’s 1964-1985 military dictatorship amid promises of a return to traditional values and safer, simpler times. Mr Bolsonaro’s stabbing forced candidates, and Mr Bolsonaro himself, to shift strategies and recalibrate. “I think we’re going to continue with the same polarisation,” if either Mr Haddad or Mr Bolsonaro wins, said Victor Aversa, a 27-year-old massage therapist who voted for centre-left candidate Ciro Gomes, who had been polling third.

Source: Irish Independent October 08, 2018 03:45 UTC