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(COMBO) This combination of file pictures taken on August 28, 2022 and created on September 27, 2022 shows Brazil’s presidential candidates (L to R clockwise) President and re-election candidate Jair Bolsonaro (PL); former President (2003-2010) and candidate for the leftist Workers Party (PT) Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva; Ciro Gomes (PDT); and Simone Tebet (MDB) during the presidential debate ahead of the October 2 general election at Bandeirantes television network in Sao Paulo, Brazil. – Some 156 million Brazilians will elect their head of state for the next four years on October 2, with a sitting president and a former president as the main contenders. In total, there will be eleven candidates and if any receives more than 50 per cent of the valid votes, a run-off election will be held on October 30.

(Photo by Miguel SCHINCARIOL / AFP)