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Despite the cocksure tone, Mr Bolsonaro has much to lose. He has four months before facing voters at the polls, and currently trails his left-wing rival, the former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, popularly known as 'Lula'. Considered his nemesis, four years ago, Mr Bolsonaro ousted Lula's Workers Party amid widespread voter disaffection over corruption.