Jair Bolsonaro: Far-right candidate wins Brazil presidential election

Far-right former army captain Jair Bolsonaro has won Brazil's presidential election, official results show. With 96 per cent of ballots counted, Mr Bolsonaro had 55.5 per cent of the votes against 44.5 per cent for leftist Fernando Haddad of the Workers' Party. In an acceptance address in which he vowed to carry out his campaign promises to stamp out corruption after years of leftist rule, Mr Bolsonaro said: "We cannot continue flirting with communism.

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