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Brazil’s right has already changed the balance of power

Bolsonaro’s party has strengthened its position in Congress, posing a formidable challenge to another Lula presidency.

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Bolsonaro’s party has strengthened its position in Congress, posing a formidable challenge to another Lula presidency. In a televised presidential debate in Sao Paulo on October 18, Flavio Bolsonaro brought a number from Brazil’s prisons into an argument over crime. “Seventy-three percent”. The 45-year-old senator claimed that was the share of prisoners who had voted for his opponent, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 80.

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