00:00With Brazil's presidential election only five days off, our correspondent Brea Mirja takes a look at the most popular conservative
00:07candidate, Flavio Bolsonaro.
00:10Flavio Bolsonaro has been embroiled in a multi-million dollar embezzlement scandal for months, but he is still a close
00:16second in this year's presidential election.
00:19Who are his supporters? Polls show that he's leading among Brazilians from the wealthiest income bracket, and snobbishness has long
00:25been a factor with their attitude towards the Workers' Party.
00:28Since Lula is the first and only president in Brazilian history to come from the working class.
00:35There are 200 million inhabitants in Brazil, and one person decides our fate.
00:42It's very sad. There are no words to define what someone of this type of low caliber is doing running
00:48our country.
00:50It's abominable. What is this creature doing in power?
00:54The only other demographic where Flavio Bolsonaro is leading Lula is with evangelical Christian voters who make up 26%
01:01of Brazil's population.
01:03Most of them seem to believe that he is on a holy mission to save Brazil by advancing the socially
01:08conservative policies of his father,
01:10whose name he mentions repeatedly in all of his campaign speeches.
01:16President Bolsonaro gave me this mission.
01:19I am here dedicating my body and soul to it and risking my life because I know what Brazil needs
01:26right now.
01:28Someone to confront this disgusting system.
01:31They tried to silence Bolsonaro. They couldn't do it.
01:35And we're going to win this election in the first round.
01:38Another factor aiding Bolsonaro is U.S. government and private sector interference.
01:42Brazil's intelligence agency, ABIN, issued a warning that the Trump administration is meddling in this year's elections at a critical
01:49level.
01:50The conservative Rockbridge network connected to Peter Thiel and Rebecca Mercer has also been exposed, illegally helping Bolsonaro.
01:58In short, several different factors have combined to keep Flavio Bolsonaro in the running.
02:03Let's not forget the simple fact that back in the last election, Jair Bolsonaro lost to President Lula by less
02:11than 1% of the vote,
02:12and we're in basically the same situation right now.
02:15Brazil's presidential elections will take place on October 4th.
02:19Brian Mir, Telesur, Recife.
