Brazilians elect Jair Bolsonaro in shift to the right

By Joe Leahy,Andres Schipani in São Paulo, in Rio de Janeiro

Brazilian former army captain  Jair Bolsonaro  won the country`s  epochal  presidential elections on Sunday, ushering in the first far-right administration in Latin America’s largest country since its former military dictatorship ended more than three decades ago.
Mr Bolsonaro was ahead with 55.5 per cent of the valid votes over 44.5 per cent for his opponent Fernando Haddad of the leftist Workers’ party, or PT, with 94.6 per cent of the vote counted on Sunday night.