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Reuters
Reuters
Health
By Brian Ellsworth and Fernando Cardoso

Bolsonaro shores up evangelical support in tight Brazil election

FILE PHOTO: Brazil's President and candidate for re-election Jair Bolsonaro speaks during an evangelical ceremony in a church, in Sao Paulo, Brazil October 23, 2022. REUTERS/Carla Carniel/File Photo

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro heads into Sunday's election with strong support among evangelical Christians, a key demographic that his rival former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had been courting in a tight presidential race.

Polls show Bolsonaro expanding his share of the evangelical vote as his campaign intensified its religious appeals, while attacking Lula's leftist Workers' Party for its defense of gay rights and the rights of those who practice Afro-Brazilian religious traditions.

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