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Jair Bolsonaro leads Brazil's presidential race from hospital bed
Source: The Guardian
Jair Bolsonaro leads Brazil's presidential race from hospital bed
The far-right candidate’s campaign has been turbo-charged since he was stabbed
Tom Phillips in São Paulo
Thu 27 Sep 2018 08.49 BST
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They were just the latest Trumpian dispatches to emerge from São Paulo’s Israelita Albert Einstein hospital, where Bolsonaro has been staying after being stabbed on the campaign trail on 6 September.
When the rightwing populist was attacked – almost one month to the day before the 7 October vote – analysts and relatives alike predicted it would turbo-charge his bid for the leadership of Latin America’s largest country.
Fast-forward nearly three weeks and those predictions have largely come true. Bolsonaro continues to top polls with about 27% of the vote, compared with the 21% of his closest rival, Fernando Haddad from the Workers’ party (PT) of jailed former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
“As disastrous as it was for him personally … politically it was quite good for him,” said Brian Winter, a Brazil expert and the editor-in-chief of Americas Quarterly.
-snip-
The far-right candidate’s campaign has been turbo-charged since he was stabbed
Tom Phillips in São Paulo
Thu 27 Sep 2018 08.49 BST
-snip-
They were just the latest Trumpian dispatches to emerge from São Paulo’s Israelita Albert Einstein hospital, where Bolsonaro has been staying after being stabbed on the campaign trail on 6 September.
When the rightwing populist was attacked – almost one month to the day before the 7 October vote – analysts and relatives alike predicted it would turbo-charge his bid for the leadership of Latin America’s largest country.
Fast-forward nearly three weeks and those predictions have largely come true. Bolsonaro continues to top polls with about 27% of the vote, compared with the 21% of his closest rival, Fernando Haddad from the Workers’ party (PT) of jailed former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
“As disastrous as it was for him personally … politically it was quite good for him,” said Brian Winter, a Brazil expert and the editor-in-chief of Americas Quarterly.
-snip-
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/27/jair-bolsonaro-brazils-far-right-presidential-frontrunner-campaigns-from-hospital-bed