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Montevideo, May 3rd 2024 - 13:10 UTC

Tag: Jair Bolsonaro

  • Monday, October 1st 2018 - 08:14 UTC

    Daunting Brazil challenges for whoever is elected president this month

    In Brazil, “part of the population still lives in the 19th century and the other part is already in the 21st century,” says Marcelo Neri, at Getulio Vargas Foundation

    Whoever wins Brazil’s presidential election on October 7, and the runoff on October 28, will have to convince markets, implement austerity measures while trying to drag millions people out of poverty.

  • Monday, October 1st 2018 - 06:13 UTC

    Bolsonaro discharge from hospital greeted by women's rallies: against and in support

    Controversial Bolsonaro was released from hospital on Saturday after being stabbed and seriously wounded by a left-wing activist in a rally on 6 September

    Women across Brazil launched a wave of nationwide protests on Saturday against the candidacy of the right-wing frontrunner in next Sunday's presidential elections, Jair Bolsonaro.The controversial Bolsonaro, who was released from hospital on Saturday after being stabbed and seriously wounded by a left-wing activist during a rally on September 6, is currently leading in opinion polls.

  • Saturday, September 29th 2018 - 12:36 UTC

    Haddad could defeat Bolsonaro in Brazil's runoff vote, according to latest poll

    Bolsonaro remained the leader in simulated first-round voting, taking 28% voter approval, as he did in a Sept. 20 Datafolha poll. Haddad took 22%

    Brazil’s Workers Party candidate, Fernando Haddad, would defeat far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro in an expected runoff vote in next month’s election, a Datafolha poll showed on Friday. In a simulated runoff vote, the poll found Haddad would get 45% voter support, beating Bolsonaro with 39%, with the rest of those asked saying they were undecided or would annul their ballot. Voting is compulsory in Brazil.

  • 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.”