Bolsonaro, 'Brazil needs to be redemocratised, if I win I will change the Constitution'

Brazil's presidential candidate, Flávio Bolsonaro, has announced that, should he win the October 25 runoff, he would seek to promote changes to the Constitution to "redemocratize" the country.

“With a majority in the Senate and the House to appoint their respective presidents we can amend the Constitution, redemocratize this country and ensure that the institutions return to respecting the Constitution,” said the eldest son of the right-wing former president, Jair Bolsonaro, during an event in the city of Goiânia.

His words place the composition of the next Congress at the center of the electoral campaign in view of the second round, where Bolsonaro Jr. - who came out ahead in the first round - will face the outgoing left-wing president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. His Liberal Party has meanwhile increased its representation in the Chamber of Deputies from 98 to 121 seats and went from 15 to 28 seats in the Senate, becoming the main political force in parliament, where it could form alliances with other conservative groups, such as União Brasil, Progressistas, Republicanos, Novo and Podemos.