
Fernando Haddad (l) and Jair Bolsonaro.
BRAZILIA, Brazil.- Brazil will be headed for a new round of presidential elections on October 28, after none of the applicants to the head of State achieved absolute majority at the polls this Sunday.
After a long number of candidates, ultra-right-winger Jair Bolsonaro and Fernando Haddad, the latter from the Workers’ Party, will finally confront each other at the end of the month, in elections where the future of Brazil is at stake, with ample Impact on the political and economic life of this hemisphere.
This first round had as a characteristic the thorough employment by the local right and its external collaborators, of almost all its electoral potential in the effort to avoid a second round of votes.
As a result, dangerous Bolsonaro, with fascist ideas, reached 46 percent of the votes in his favor.