Candidates Trash Election Results Before Brazil Even Votes
- Both left and right raise doubts about legitimacy of vote
- Contentious election could affect governability for winner
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Brazil’s wildly unpredictable presidential election is becoming even more uncertain as some of the candidates threaten to reject the result.
Both the left and right of Brazil’s political spectrum are already questioning the legitimacy of October’s vote. While the Workers’ Party insists that any election without the jailed former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva would be a fraud, ex-Army captain Jair Bolsonaro has questioned the reliability of the country’s electronic voting system.