Brazil votes in Bolsonaro-Lula showdown

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Brazilians voted Sunday in a polarizing presidential election leftist front-runner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva hopes to win in a single round amid fears far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro will not accept a defeat.

Polls opened at 8:00 am (1100 GMT) for eight hours of balloting with an early trickle of voters dutifully decked out in the red colors of Lula’s Workers’ Party, or the green-and-yellow of Brazil’s national flag that Bolsonaro has
claimed as his own.

“I’m a Christian, I only vote for candidates who are for what’s in the Bible, so I’m voting for Bolsonaro,” housewife Aldeyze dos Santos, 40, told AFP in Brasilia, the capital.

In Rio de Janeiro, retired psychologist Katia Ferrari, 67, said: “I hate Bolsonaro.”