“For months, officials in Brazil and across the international community have watched President Jair Bolsonaro cast doubt on Brazil’s voting systems, growing increasingly worried that the far-right leader was setting the stage to dispute an election loss,” the New York Times reports.
“Late Wednesday, the president gave them more reason to worry. In a surprise move less than four days before the vote, Mr. Bolsonaro’s political party released a document that claimed, without evidence, that a group of government employees and contractors had the ‘absolute power to manipulate election results without leaving a trace.’”
The backdrop from the Financial Times: “Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has taken a dominant lead heading into Brazil’s presidential election, with polls suggesting the leftwing former leader is within the margin of error for a first-round victory.”
