Brazil's Patron Saint Reappears in Polarized Election Campaign
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Radio France Internationale
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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Senator Flavio Bolsonaro will face each other in an October 25 runoff, and religion has dominated the final stretch of the campaign in the deeply Christian nation. Ahead of the first-round vote earlier this month, Bolsonaro fiercely denied a rumor that he planned to demote Brazil's beloved patron saint, Our Lady of Aparecida, if elected. The saint is revered by Brazil's Catholics but is not recognized as a…
The Black Virgin was one of the protagonists of the first round of the election, on October 4th: the evangelical son Bolsonaro had had to deny during the campaign a false information that he would have intended to deprive her of her title as boss if he became president. The outgoing president of the left Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had exploited rumours in this direction published on social networks. The issue is sensitive in a country where Catho…
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