Ex-Paratrooper on Brink of Brazil's Presidency

Jair Bolsonaro took 46.2 percent of valid ballots, falling just short of the majority needed to avoid a runoff, and will face the leftist Workers’ Party candidate Fernando Haddad, who won 29.1 percent, in a second round on Oct. 28. With such a wide margin of victory, the presidential race is now his to lose. In every election since Brazil’s return to democracy from military rule over three decades ago, the winner of the first ballot went on to capture the presidency in the runoff.

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