周日的普选结果仍难以预料，现任总统卢拉·达席尔瓦与企图推翻他的前总统贾伊尔·博索纳罗的儿子弗拉维奥·博索纳罗势均力敌。卢拉在民调中的支持率与博索纳罗不相上下。博索纳罗因策划政变企图“摧毁”民主而面临27年监禁。巴西是拉丁美洲最大的民主国家，但军方独裁的历史仍近在眼前。
Sunday’s general election is too close to call, with the incumbent president facing the son of the man who attempted a coup against him Sunday’s election in Brazil could hardly be a clearer-cut choice – nor a closer call. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula, is neck and neck in the polls with Flávio Bolsonaro, the son and champion of the jailed far-right former president Jair. Mr Bolsonaro senior is serving a 27-year sentence for plotting a coup to “annihilate” democracy after losing the last election. Brazil is Latin America’s largest democracy, but military dictatorship is in its recent past.
博索纳罗试图为他的父亲以及2023年支持他的暴徒们争取自由。
Mr Bolsonaro wants to free his father and those who rioted in his support in 2023.
尽管博索纳罗在竞选中试图表现得比他的父亲更温和、更克制，但他的极端立场并未改变。
The senator has campaigned as a less crass and temperamental version of his father, but he is no less extreme.
对双方来说，这次投票更多是对他们所憎恶之人的抵制，而非对某位候选人的支持。大多数选民对这两位候选人都不满。
For many on both sides, this is a vote against a man they detest more than an endorsement of their own candidate. Most voters disapprove of both men.