Brazil’s President-Elect Bolsonaro Pledges Unity, Austerity, Growth
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Jair Bolsonaro
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Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro pledged on Sunday to unify Latin America’s largest nation, downsize the government, and shift foreign policy toward advanced countries.
Bolsonaro beat his leftist rival Fernando Haddad with 55 percent against 45 percent after a highly divisive campaign that saw former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva arrested, Bolsonaro stabbed and isolated cases of violence emerge.