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Tuesday 18 sepTember 2018

Leading Brazil candidate says he fears electoral fraud

By MAURICIO SAVARESE lots, a move that was lat-
SAO PAULO (AP) — The er blocked by Brazil's top
man leading Brazil's presi- court on grounds it might
dential election polls says lead to fraud.
he is worried that fraud Recent polls show Bolson-
could cost him victory in aro and Haddad are likely
October, raising questions to lead the Oct. 7 first-
about whether he would round vote and then face
accept defeat. an Oct. 28 runoff.
Far-right candidate Jair Bol- Bolsonaro has been hospi-
sonaro made a Facebook talized since the stabbing
live posting Sunday saying and while he left intensive
he sees a risk that fraud care over the weekend,
might give the election to it's unclear when he might
Fernando Haddad, who be able to resume personal
has replaced jailed former campaigning. The motive
President Luiz Inacio Lula for the attack on him re-
da Silva on the left-leaning mains unclear. On Mon-
Workers Party ticket. Da Sil- day Haddad accused the
va led in polls before being far-right candidate of "toy-
disqualified due to a cor- ing with democracy" with
ruption conviction. In this Sept. 5, 2018 file photo, Jair Bolsonaro, National Social Liberal Party presidential candidate, the fraud claim and said
"The great concern is not greets supporters during a campaign rally in Brasilia, Brazil. that Bolsonaro and his vice
to lose the vote, it is to lose Associated Press presidential running mate,
by fraud. That possibility of retired Gen. Hamilton
fraud in the runoff, maybe recovering from a Sept. 6 voting," he said. distrust in Brazil's electronic Mourao, are raising the risk
even in the first vote, is con- stabbing attack. Bolsonaro didn't provide voting system. The con- of authoritarianism in Brazil,
crete," Bolsonaro said in his "The Workers' Party discov- any evidence to support gressman sponsored a bill which emerged from two
first address to supporters ered the way to power, his claim, though over the for voters to get a receipt decades of dictatorship in
from a hospital where he is and that is the electronic years he has expressed after casting their bal- 1985.q

Guatemala court backs UN ant-graft chief against president

By SONIA PEREZ D keep Ivan Velasquez out of giving it a year to wind
Associated Press Guatemala. The commis- down and end its activities.
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — In sion's chairman has pressed A few days later the presi-
a blunt rebuke to President a number of high-profile dent said that Velasquez,
Jimmy Morales, Guate- graft probes, including one a Colombian national who
mala's Constitutional Court pending against the presi- was in Washington at the
ordered that the head of dent himself. time, would be prohibited
a U.N.-backed anti-cor- There was no immediate from re-entering this Cen-
ruption commission be let public reaction from the tral American nation. Mo-
back in the country two president. His spokesman, rales called him "a person
weeks after Morales barred Alfredo Brito, did not re- who attacks order and
him as he moved to defang spond to phone calls Sun- public security in the coun-
the investigative body. day night seeking com- try."
The unanimous ruling late ment. Morales' order touched off
Sunday by the court's five Morales announced in late public protests in support
magistrates marked the Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales delivers his speech August that he would not of the body, and multiple
second time in as many during a a session to celebrate the country's independence, in renew the mandate of the appeals were promptly
years that the court has re- Guatemala City, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018. commission for another filed with the Constitutional
versed Morales' efforts to Associated Press two-year term, effectively Court.q