Brazil's Lula, Bolsonaro trade graft accusations in final debate


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  • Friday, 30 Sep 2022

Presidential candidates Luiz Felipe D'Avila of the New Party (Novo), Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of the Workers Party (PT), Simone Tebet of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB), President Jair Bolsonaro of the Liberal Party (PL), Soraya Thronicke of Brazil Union (Uniao Brasil), Ciro Gomes of the Democratic Labor Party (PDT) and Padre Kelmon (PTB) attend a Presidential Debate ahead of the national election, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 29, 2022. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Brazil's main presidential candidates traded accusations of corruption in their last debate before Sunday's election, with little discussion of proposals to govern the South American country.

Incumbent far-right President Jair Bolsonaro called his leftist rival, former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the boss of a criminal gang that ran a "kleptocracy" during his two-term presidency from 2003 to 2010.

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