Brazil's far-right frontrunner Bolsonaro says he will rule with 'authority not authoritarianism'

After his first round victory, Jair Bolsonaro tries to allay fears that Brazil could lurch back towards dictatorship under his command

Brazil needs to be ruled “with authority but without authoritarianism,” the far-right frontrunner to become its next president has declared in an apparent bid to allay fears of the tyrannical tack many fear Latin America’s largest democracy could take under his command.

In his first television interview since his emphatic first round victory on Sunday, Jair Bolsonaro, 63, vowed to “pacify and unite the Brazilian people under the green and yellow flag”.

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