Far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and leftist rival Lula da Silva exchange accusations of drunkenness and eating human flesh as hostility intensifies ahead of Brazil's October 30 presidential run-off
Leftist Lula airs campaign ad with excerpts from an old interview in which far-right leader purportedly talks about participating in supposed cannibalism, while incumbent Bolsonaro calls Lula"drunk" in a ranting news conference.
The already polarising campaign veered deeper into negative territory on Friday as ex-president Lula aired a campaign ad with excerpts from a 2016 interview Bolsonaro gave toDescribing a planned visit to a Yanomami Indigenous community, then-congressman Bolsonaro said in the interview that a villager had recently died.
But the video had gone viral on social networks in recent days -- and Lula's campaign pounced, keen to hold off Bolsonaro after he won a better-than-expected 43 percent of the vote, to 48 percent for Lula in Sunday's first-round election.READ MORE: After several days of striking a moderate tone in an apparent bid to appeal to moderate voters, Bolsonaro also escalated his rhetoric, calling Lula a "drunk" in a ranting news conference.
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