As the far-right incumbent launched his re-election bid on Tuesday, trailing his leftist nemesis, former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as they head into the October elections, Mr Bolsonaro’s hardline backers were front and centre.
“I swear to you once again, I will give my life to defend our freedom,” the 67-year-old former army captain told a fired-up crowd in Juiz de Fora, the south-eastern city where he narrowly survived a stabbing attack in 2018.
That attack, perpetrated by a man later deemed mentally unfit to stand trial, cemented Mr Bolsonaro’s image in the minds of supporters as their “Messias”, or Messiah – his middle name.
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