Brazil’s Lula and Bolsonaro rally thousands before tight run-off vote
Brazil’s presidential candidates Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Flavio Bolsonaro held final campaign rallies on Saturday, drawing thousands of supporters ahead of Sunday’s closely contested run-off election. Lula addressed a crowd at Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach, while Bolsonaro gathered supporters in Minas Gerais state. Recent polling shows the candidates about even, with a CNT/MDA survey giving Bolsonaro 46.3 percent support versus 45 percent for Lula, within the poll’s 2.2-point margin of error. The election will decide whether Brazilians keep their left-wing leader or shift rightward. Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, has pledged tougher crime policies and spending cuts, while some voters expressed dissatisfaction with both choices.