Presidential candidates: A look at Bosonara and Haddad

Jair Bolsonaro

Like Trump, the 63-year-old Bolsonaro is fond of tough-guy talk, eschews political correctness and uses social media to bypass journalistic scrutiny.

He has hailed military men in government, championed looser gun laws, and projects an image of an outsider combating a corrupt and incompetent elite.

But the comparison with the US leader is not entirely accurate: Bolsonaro himself once served in the military as an army captain, and is in fact a long-standing member of Brazil’s congress, which he joined in 1991.

Still, his shoot-from-thelip style pledge to completely revamp Brazil’s big economy and polarising effect on the electorate are what has grabbed much attention. Statements pillorying gays, denigrating women (he once said of a female leftist deputy: ‘she doesn’t deserve to be raped because she’s very