Brazil third-place candidate backs Lula in runoff

SAO PAULO, Oct 6 — The candidate who finished third in Brazil’s first-round presidential election gave her endorsement Wednesday to leftist veteran Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for his runoff against far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro.

Tebet, an anti-abortion Catholic whose support could be key to swaying socially conservative and women voters, criticised both ex-president Lula and Bolsonaro at a news conference in Sao Paulo.“These past four years, Brazil has been consumed by a bonfire of hate and strife,” she said, attacking Bolsonaro over his Covid-19 “denialism,” pro-gun policies and the 30 million Brazilians living in hunger.

The endorsement came after her party, the Brazilian Democratic Movement — whose leadership was split between pro-Bolsonaro and pro-Lula camps — said members could back whichever man they wanted. Cardoso wrote on Twitter that he would cast his vote for Lula’s “history of struggle for democracy and social inclusion.”

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