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wing surge into Brazil's election runoff

Brazil's Flavio Bolsonaro heads to a runoff election buoyed by sweeping gains in Congress, after a shock first-place poll finish hailed by US President

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Brazil election runoff takeaways: Bolsonaro surges, Lula falters and Trump eyes prizeBrazil is heading for another Lula-Bolsonaro showdown. But this time it is Jair Bolsonaro’s eldest son Flávio who stands between leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and another term in power. A Bolsonaro victory would push the region further towards the right, hand US President Donald Trump a powerful ideological ally in its largest country and…
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