Far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro wins Brazil's presidential election

Jair Bolsonaro.
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Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right candidate in Brazil's presidential election, was declared the winner Sunday, with 55.7 percent of the vote.

Bolsonaro defeated the leftist Workers' Party candidate, Fernando Haddad. The Workers' Party governed Brazil for more than a decade, and pre-election polls showed that 25 percent of those who supported Bolsonaro were not major fans of his, but rather did not want the Workers' Party to win. Earlier this month, Bolsonaro won the first round of elections, but because he didn't reach the 50 percent needed to avoid a runoff, a second election was held. Voting in Brazil is compulsory.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.