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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Catarina Demony and Miguel Pereira

Tensions high as Brazilians on other side of Atlantic cast ballots

Citizens of Brazil wait in line to cast their vote in their country's election, in Lisbon, Portugal, October 2, 2022. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes

Brazilian Artur Dantas moved to Portugal six months ago because of political tension in his country but he hopes the result of Sunday's elections might allow him and others to return home one day.

Dantas and thousands of others in Portugal's capital Lisbon, the city with the largest number of Brazilian voters outside the South American nation, queued - some for hours - to cast their ballots in the first round of Brazil's most polarised election in decades.

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