Brazil's new parties fail to capitalise on anti-corruption mood


  • World
  • Tuesday, 04 Oct 2016

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's municipal elections showed that new parties have failed to capitalise on voters' disenchantment with a corruption-tainted political establishment, making it unlikely an outsider will win the 2018 presidential poll.

The political movements nurtured by the anti-corruption street protests of 2013 and 2015, despite a massive presence on social media, won just a handful of mayoral posts and local council seats in Sunday's nationwide polls.

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