{"id":2285,"date":"2018-10-26T02:12:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T02:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=2285"},"modified":"2018-10-26T02:12:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T02:12:37","slug":"brazils-haddad-democracy-at-risk-if-bolsonaro-elected-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2018\/10\/26\/brazils-haddad-democracy-at-risk-if-bolsonaro-elected-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil&#8217;s Haddad: Democracy at risk if Bolsonaro elected president"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ArticleHeader_container\">\n<div class=\"ArticleHeader_upper-container\">\n<div class=\"foreground\">\n<div class=\"TwoColumnLayout_container TwoColumnLayout_fluid-left\">\n<div class=\"TwoColumnLayout_column TwoColumnLayout_left\">\n<div class=\"ArticleHeader_content-container\">\n<h1 class=\"ArticleHeader_headline\">Brazil&#8217;s Haddad: Democracy at risk if Bolsonaro elected president<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"TwoColumnLayout_column TwoColumnLayout_right\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lower-container\">\n<div class=\"TwoColumnLayout_container inner TwoColumnLayout_fluid-left\">\n<div class=\"TwoColumnLayout_column TwoColumnLayout_left\">\n<div class=\"ArticleHeader_content-container\">\n<div class=\"BylineBar_first-container ArticleHeader_byline-bar\">\n<div class=\"BylineBar_border-wrap\">\n<div class=\"BylineBar_last-container\">\n<div class=\"BylineBar_share-container\">\n<div class=\"SocialTool_container\">\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"TwoColumnLayout_column TwoColumnLayout_right\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"TwoColumnLayout_container StandardArticle_content TwoColumnLayout_fluid-left\">\n<div class=\"TwoColumnLayout_column TwoColumnLayout_left\">\n<div class=\"StandardArticleBody_container\">\n<div class=\"StandardArticleBody_body\">\n<div class=\"PrimaryAsset_container\">\n<div class=\"Image_container\">\n<figure class=\"Image_zoom\">\n<div class=\"LazyImage_container LazyImage_dark\">\n<div class=\"LazyImage_image LazyImage_cover LazyImage_fallback\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Image_expand-button\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"Image_caption\">Fernando Haddad, presidential candidate of Brazil&#8217;s leftist Workers&#8217; Party (PT), attends a news conference after a debate at the engineers club in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil October 19, 2018. REUTERS\/Ricardo Moraes<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>SAO PAULO (Reuters) &#8211; Brazil\u2019s left-leaning presidential candidate Fernando Haddad said on Monday that the country\u2019s democracy will be at risk if his far-right rival, Jair Bolsonaro, is elected in this weekend\u2019s run-off ballot, as opinion polls indicate he will.<\/p>\n<p>Haddad made the comments a day after a video surfaced of Bolsonaro\u2019s son, Eduardo, saying that Brazil\u2019s Supreme Court should be disbanded if it were to take any action to strip his father of a win in the election on Oct. 28.<\/p>\n<p>Haddad also said that military hard-liners would threaten democratic institutions under a Bolsonaro government &#8211; which the right-winger has repeatedly denied.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Attribution_container\">\n<div class=\"Attribution_attribution\">\n<p class=\"Attribution_content\">Reporting by Tais Haupt; Writing by Brad Brooks; Editing by Frances Kerry<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"StandardArticleBody_trustBadgeContainer\"><span class=\"StandardArticleBody_trustBadgeTitle\">Our Standards:<\/span><span class=\"trustBadgeUrl\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thomsonreuters.com\/en\/about-us\/trust-principles.html\">The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"DPSlot_container StandardArticleBody_dp-slot-inline\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil&#8217;s Haddad: Democracy at risk if Bolsonaro elected president Fernando Haddad, presidential candidate of Brazil&#8217;s leftist Workers&#8217; Party (PT), attends a news conference after a debate at the engineers club in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil October 19, 2018. 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