This Man Is Playing a Big Role in Brazil’s Election—and He Isn’t Even on the Ballot
- Carwash and its leader features in final days ahead of vote
- Haddad stops his visits to Lula’s prison cell amid scrutiny
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One of the decisive figures in Brazil’s Oct. 28 presidential vote may not be either man on the ballot.
Lionized by the right, loathed by most of the left, Sergio Moro, the judge who oversaw the sprawling Operation Carwash corruption investigation, has become a totemic figure. While frontrunner Jair Bolsonaro is claiming his mantle of incorruptibility, Fernando Haddad’s Workers’ Party is struggling to emerge from the association with the scandals exposed by Moro.
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This Man Is Playing a Big Role in Brazil’s Election—and He Isn’t Even on the Ballot