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Montevideo, April 18th 2024 - 20:27 UTC

Tag: 2018 Brazil Elections

  • Thursday, September 27th 2018 - 09:15 UTC

    Ciro Gomes leaves hospital following minor prostate surgery

    Gomes had been campaigning in Rio de Janeiro state on Tuesday morning before being admitted to a hospital in Sao Paulo in the afternoon having felt pain.

    Brazil presidential election candidate Ciro Gomes left hospital in Sao Paulo on Wednesday, a day after undergoing surgery on his prostate. Currently running third in opinion polls ahead of the October 7 election first round, 60-year-old Gomes underwent a minimally invasive procedure that involved the “cauterization of blood vessels,” his center-left PDT party said in a statement.

  • Thursday, September 27th 2018 - 08:57 UTC

    Latest poll in Brazil shows extreme right Bolsonaro losing ground

    Bolsonaro has held his lead ahead of the Oct. 7 election with 27% of voter support, the survey by polling firm Ibope commissioned by CNI indicated

    Brazil’s far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro has only a six-point lead over surging Workers Party candidate Fernando Haddad, and would lose a second-round runoff against him next month, a new opinion poll showed on Wednesday. However both leading candidates lost one percentage point over last week's poll and only Ciro Gomes climbed from 11% to 12%

  • Wednesday, September 26th 2018 - 08:58 UTC

    Evangelical “block” in Brazilian congress expected to increase

    With numbers and clout growing, and the “evangelical bloc” in Congress, 15% of lawmakers, evangelical supporters have become the focus of leading candidates

    Evangelical voters are expected to play a decisive role in Brazil’s Oct. 7 presidential election as new rules ban corporations from making direct contributions in the wake of a graft scandal. With their numbers and clout growing, and the “evangelical bloc” in Congress accounting for 15% of federal lawmakers, evangelical supporters have become the focus of leading candidates.

  • Wednesday, September 26th 2018 - 08:46 UTC

    Ex wife of Bolsonaro denies death threats in legal fight over son's custody

    Folha de S.Paulo reported that Ana Cristina Valle had told Brazil's foreign office she left the country because of the threat by far-right congressman Jair Bolsonaro

    An ex-wife of a leading Brazilian presidential candidate disputed a news report on Tuesday that she accused him of sending her a death threat amid a legal fight over their son's custody in 2011. The newspaper Folha de S.Paulo reported that Ana Cristina Valle had told Brazil's foreign office she left the country because of the threat by far-right congressman Jair Bolsonaro.

  • Tuesday, September 25th 2018 - 07:31 UTC

    Brazil:Haddad closer to Bolsonaro and would beat him in the runoff, according to latest polls

    Bolsonaro held steady at 28% of voter approval in the first round as compared to the same Ibope poll released last week

    Fernando Haddad, the presidential candidate for Brazil’s Workers Party (PT), is closing the gap with poll-leading far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro for the October 7 first-round vote and would beat him in a runoff, a survey released on Monday showed.

  • Monday, September 24th 2018 - 09:26 UTC

    Bolsonaro's homophobic rhetoric backfiring among women voters

    Bolsanaro described the birth of his daughter as a moment of “weakness” after his four sons.

    Brazil’s far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro built much of his reputation on shocking, sexist rhetoric. But that’s backfiring with the majority of the electorate: women. The former Army captain’s rejection rate has risen to 50% among female voters, even as he lies on a hospital bed after being stabbed by a fanatic.

  • Monday, September 24th 2018 - 09:17 UTC

    Brazil's colored community sponsors Black & Black network to promote its political candidates

    Black & Black aims to “connect the demands and narratives of the world's black population” and to ensure that “black people get the prominence they deserve”

    In Brazil's general elections approach, a new social network is gaining traction aimed at giving greater visibility to black candidates while highlighting anti-racism initiatives in the country tainted by racial prejudice. Black & Black, which has 100,000 users -- in a population of more than 200 million -- aims to “connect the demands and narratives of the world's black population” and to ensure that “black people get the prominence they deserve.”

  • Saturday, September 22nd 2018 - 08:24 UTC

    Bolsonaro reprimands his chief economic advisor over new taxes controversy

    Bolsonaro has said that market friendly Paolo Guedes will be Brazil's economy minister if he wins

    The key economic adviser to Brazil's leading presidential candidate cancelled two campaign events on Friday amid a disagreement with his boss. Market-friendly Paulo Guedes, the main adviser of far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro, canceled events at the American Chamber of Commerce and broker XP Investimentos in Sao Paulo.

  • Saturday, September 22nd 2018 - 06:37 UTC

    Bolsonaro expects to be discharged from hospital, “God willing” at the end of the month

    “I've never felt so happy and good in my life. Many thanks to you all. By the end of the month, God willing, I'll be discharged,” said Bolsonaro on Facebook

    Brazil's right-wing presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro said in a video released Friday that he expects to leave hospital before the end of the month after he was stabbed in the abdomen two weeks ago.

  • Friday, September 21st 2018 - 09:23 UTC

    Bolsonaro undergoes further surgery to drain liquid from abdomen

    The extreme right presidential candidate at his hospital bed

    Brazilian extreme right presidential candidate Jain Bolsonaro, who was stabbed during a political rally over a week ago and has since been under intensive care in the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo, had to undergo another emergency invasive intervention following high fever and accumulation of liquid in his abdomen.