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With Brazil's presidential elections only one days off, social movements that had been campaigning for their candidates all election season held their final rallies today. Our correspondent Brian Mier has more.
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00:00And with just one day to go before Brazil's general election, the candidates are out on the streets holding their
00:06final public rallies.
00:07Our correspondent Brian Muir has more details.
00:11Today is the last day in which candidates can stage public rallies.
00:18And across Brazil, all of the gubernatorial candidates, senatorial candidates, congressional candidates are on the streets.
00:25Here in Brazil, a crowd of tens of thousands of people has come out to see what could possibly be
00:31the last campaign rally of President Lula's career.
00:35He says he believes that he can win in the first round.
00:39To do that, he would need 50% of the votes plus one.
00:43Now, Flávio Bolsonaro is also saying he thinks he can win in the first round.
00:47So it's up in the air. But if neither candidate wins, what that means is that there'll be a second
00:53round election on October 28th.
00:56Not just for the two leading presidential candidates, but in all 26 states plus the federal district where gubernatorial elections
01:04are going on tomorrow.
01:05There will be runoff elections for them as well.
01:08So there's been a lot of talk about U.S. interference.
01:12Brazil's federal police announced today that they're opening an investigation over what they believe might be a possible false flag
01:19operation by the U.S. government to undermine confidence in Brazil's electoral system.
01:24But for now, the mood is optimistic here on the streets of Sao Paulo.
01:29For the thousands of people who've come out to see Lula da Silva, gubernatorial candidate Fernando Haddad, and senatorial candidates
01:37Marina Silva and Simone Tebet parade down the street.
01:40They believe their candidates will win tomorrow, October 4th, Brazil's national day of elections.
01:49We go now to Venezuela.

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