巴西利亚，10月18日——巴西支持者周日为总统候选人举行集会，左翼总统路易斯·伊纳西奥·卢拉·达席尔瓦和右翼参议员弗拉维奥·博索纳罗准备进行首场电视辩论，竞选活动还剩一周。
BRASILIA, Oct 18 - Brazilian supporters held rallies for presidential candidates on Sunday as leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro prepared for their first televised debate with just one week left in the campaign.
身穿巴西国旗黄、绿、蓝三色的博索纳罗支持者挤满了圣保罗金融中心的保利斯塔大道，候选人乘坐花车出场，随后发表讲话。
Pro-Bolsonaro crowds wearing Brazil's national colors of yellow, green and blue packed Paulista Avenue in Sao Paulo's financial center, and the candidate appeared on a float ahead of giving an address.
身穿象征其工人党红色的卢拉支持者填满了巴西利亚政府大楼广场，支持总统的学生在里约热内卢抗议博索纳罗。
Lula supporters wearing red, symbolic of his Workers' Party, filled Brasilia's plaza of government buildings and students backing the president protested against Bolsonaro in Rio de Janeiro.
民调显示，10月25日决选竞争激烈，博索纳罗略占优势，他在10月4日第一轮投票中以将近两个百分点的优势领先卢拉。
Polls show a close race for the October 25 runoff, with Bolsonaro holding a slight advantage after finishing nearly 2 percentage points ahead of Lula in the election's first round on October 4.
两位候选人都希望争取第一轮投票中缺席的3300万选民，这相当于大约五分之一的合格选民。
Both candidates hope to engage the 33 million voters who stayed home in the election's first round, equal to about one in five eligible voters.
圣保罗的辩论定于当地时间晚上8点（格林尼治标准时间23:00）开始，由广播公司Band转播。第一轮投票的最后一场辩论因卢拉和博索纳罗临时退出而取消。
The debate in Sao Paulo is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. (2300 GMT) and air on broadcaster Band. The last debate in the election's first round was canceled at the last minute when Lula and Bolsonaro pulled out.
电视总统辩论曾是巴西民主的标志，始于该国1985年结束21年军事独裁统治之后，但随着领先候选人越来越多地选择缺席，电视辩论已失去重要性。
Once a hallmark of Brazilian democracy following the end of the country's 21-year military dictatorship in 1985, televised presidential debates have lost relevance as leading candidates have increasingly chosen to stay away.
关于Meta（其平台包括Facebook和Instagram）是否平等对待两位候选人的争议，为竞选活动的最后几天增添了新的紧张气氛。
A dispute over whether Meta’s platforms, which include Facebook and Instagram, treated the two candidates equally has injected new tension into the campaign's final days.
卢拉的联盟表示，他的Instagram账号和帖子受到了限制，当地报纸《圣保罗页报》报道了Meta内部信息，这些信息承认了上述限制，并称该平台向用户推荐了博索纳罗的个人资料和WhatsApp频道。
Lula’s coalition said his Instagram account and posts were restricted, and local newspaper Folha de S.Paulo reported internal Meta messages that acknowledged those restrictions and said the platform had recommended Bolsonaro’s profile and WhatsApp channel to users.
Meta表示，其曾出现全球性技术故障，但否认存在任何政治偏见。该公司表示：“任何暗示Meta偏向一方的说法都是错误的。”
Meta said it had experienced global technical glitches but denied any political bias. “Any suggestion that Meta favors one side is false,” the company said.