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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva faced off in a final debate before their runoff election Sunday, focusing mainly on economic hardships.
It is an issue that could sway some of the few undecided voters in the tight race between the far-right incumbent and the leftist challenger who clashed Friday night in a broadcast on the nation’s biggest TV network.
Da Silva, who leads in opinion polls as he seeks to return to the job he held from 2003 to 2010, once more pledged to boost spending on the poor, though he did not outline a clear plan on how he would achieve that.
He also highlighted that Bolsonaro’s government hasn’t yet provided an increase to the minimum wage above inflation.
“This man governed for four years and there was not 1% of a real increase,” da Silva said at the…
