{"id":64777,"date":"2018-10-29T03:02:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T02:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/10\/29\/brazil-election-2018-far-right-candidate-jair-bolsonaro-wins-presidential-vote-live\/"},"modified":"2018-10-29T03:02:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T02:02:14","slug":"brazil-election-2018-far-right-candidate-jair-bolsonaro-wins-presidential-vote-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=64777","title":{"rendered":"Brazil election 2018: far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro wins presidential vote \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electoral authorities have confirmed Bolsonaro will become president after winning 55.7% of the vote in Sunday\u2019s second-round poll Full story: \u2018The extreme right has conquered Brazil\u2019 \u2013 Bolsonaro wins presidencyJair Bolsonaro: Brazil\u2019s far-right president in his own words 2.02am GMT There have been reports of military and police joining in the celebrations at Bolsonaro\u2019s victory. Our reporter Dom Phillips in Rio saw a police helicopter fly overhead with a Brazilian flag hanging from its door.A police helicopter did a flypast up and down the packed beach road outside Bolsonaro\u2019s house with a Brazilian flag flapping in it\u2019s door while people cheered and waved.Army bros in Niter\u00f3i apparently couldn&#8217;t wait to stage a military parade https:\/\/t.co\/qbf3feGk8Q 1.53am GMT When Ricardo Mengon heard Jair Bolsonaro had been elected president of Brazil he shouted. Then he cried.Finally, the 54-year-old insurance salesman grabbed a giant Brazil flag emblazoned with his country\u2019s motto \u2013 Ordem e Progresso (Order and Progress) \u2013 and hit the streets of central S\u00e3o Paulo to mark the victory of a far-right populist he hopes will remake the world\u2019s fourth largest democracy. Related: &#8216;He&#8217;s the saviour of the nation&#8217;: Bolsonarianos celebrate Brazil&#8217;s new order Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2018\/oct\/28\/brazil-election-2018-second-round-of-voting-closes-as-bolsonaro-eyes-the-presidency-live\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil election 2018: far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro wins presidential vote \u2013 live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electoral authorities have confirmed Bolsonaro will become president after winning 55.7% of the vote in Sunday\u2019s second-round poll Full story: \u2018The extreme right has conquered Brazil\u2019 \u2013 Bolsonaro wins presidencyJair Bolsonaro: Brazil\u2019s far-right president in his own words 2.02am GMT There have been reports of military and police joining in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}