Jair Bolsonaro on brink of victory in Brazil as fears for democracy grow

Opponents fear far-right candidate will plunge Brazil back into authoritarianism

Cristina Gozdal turned out to vote on Sunday morning wearing the yellow and green colours of Brazil’s national flag and hoping her country was on the verge of electing its very own Donald Trump.

“He thinks like the people think,” Gozdal, a 45-year-old systems analyst, said of Jair Bolsonaro, the far right’s favourite to become Brazil’s next leader, as she cast her vote a few blocks from Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana beach.

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