Brazil Votes on October 4, With Lula and a Bolsonaro as Front-Runners

Brazilians go to the polls on October 4. DW reports the front-runners are the multilateralist incumbent, Lula da Silva, and Flavio Bolsonaro — son of former president Jair Bolsonaro — who wants to bring Brazil closer to the United States and away from China. The surname is the familiar part of that pairing. The directional pitch attached to it is the more specific thing to watch: a candidate whose stated aim is a change of alignment.