Brazil election: What is behind the rise of Jair Bolsonaro?

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Brazil election: What is behind the rise of Jair Bolsonaro?

Brazilians will head to polls on Sunday to choose between two radically different leaders in the second round of voting.

Fernando Haddad from the Workers’ Party is the country’s left-wing candidate.

But his right-wing rival Jair Bolsonaro holds a lead in most polls and is expected to win.

Al Jazeera’s Daniel Schweimler has more from Sao Paulo on what’s behind Bolsonaro’s political popularity.