Brazil's Sunday Vote: Lula Against Flávio Bolsonaro, the Imprisoned Ex-President's Son
Brazilians will head to the polls on Sunday to choose their next president, the BBC reports. The contest is between the current left-wing president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro.
Flávio Bolsonaro is the son of imprisoned former president Jair Bolsonaro, and he beat Lula in the first round on 4 October by a narrow margin. The BBC's Americas correspondent Ione Wells, reporting from Rio de Janeiro, describes voters as choosing between two very different candidates.
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The striking thing is the surname doing the work: Flávio Bolsonaro is on the ballot as the right-wing senator, while his father, the former president, is imprisoned. Brazilian politics has not turned the page so much as changed the font.
The first round is the check on that joke: Flávio Bolsonaro beat Lula, narrowly, on 4 October. A former president father may open doors, but a narrow win is not just a family inheritance.