[ti:Brazilians Vote for Next President on Sunday] [by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM [00:00.00]Brazilians will vote Sunday in presidential elections. [00:05.43]A total of 13 candidates are on the ballot. [00:10.50]The leading candidate is said to be 63-year-old [00:15.43]Jair Bolsonaro of the Social Liberal Party. [00:19.48]He is supported by 35 percent of likely voters in the latest opinion survey. [00:27.45]During the election campaign, Bolsonaro has said that, if elected, [00:33.61]he will help Brazil deal with a number of problems. [00:38.50]He has promised to take steps to reduce crime, [00:43.28]strengthen the economy and fight corruption. [00:48.01]But many Brazilians are concerned about some [00:52.14]of the statements Bolsonaro has made in the past. [00:56.08]Some believe many of his ideas are racist, [01:01.12]homophobic and unfair to women. [01:05.04]Bolsonaro's supporters say [01:08.02]tens of millions of Brazilians hope he will be elected, [01:13.01]even if they will not say so to friends or family members. [01:18.62]In opinion surveys, his nearest opponent [01:22.49]is Workers' Party candidate Fernando Haddad, [01:26.43]who replaced former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. [01:31.03]Lula is serving a 12-year prison sentence for corruption. [01:37.01]Brazil's top electoral court barred him from serving as a candidate in August. [01:44.46]Last month, Lula told supporters, [01:48.19]"I want everyone who would vote for me [01:51.46]to vote for Fernando Haddad for president of Brazil. [01:55.35]From now on, he will be Lula for millions of Brazilians." [02:01.59]Haddad and Lula are said to be friends and similar in their political positions. [02:09.59]But for many voters in Brazil, the two men are also very different. [02:15.94]Lula served as the country's president between 2003 and 2011. [02:23.38]Haddad was mayor of Sao Paolo for four years, from 2013 to 2017. [02:30.54]Before becoming a candidate for mayor in 2012, [02:34.85]Haddad served as Brazil's education minister [02:38.56]under Lula and then former president Dilma Rousseff. [02:43.05]American Mark Jones has been watching the election campaign. [02:48.48]Jones is head of the Latin American Studies program [02:53.29]at Rice University in Houston, Texas. [02:57.60]He says a Bolsonaro victory would represent a move away [03:02.20]from traditional party candidates in Brazil. [03:06.54]Jones told VOA, "In a country that's hungry [03:11.16]for someone who's a non-traditional politician... [03:14.32]he's providing the vehicle for them to cast their vote." [03:18.24]Jones added that the Workers' Party is being blamed [03:22.57]for the country's recession, high crime rate and political corruption. [03:28.45]He says that has helped Bolsonaro's rise in popularity. [03:34.12]Another candidate is Marina Silva of the Sustainability Network Party. [03:40.52]Silva was born in a rubber-producing community in the Amazon rainforest. [03:47.10]She served as Brazil's environmental minister while Lula was president. [03:53.90]She was a candidate in the past two presidential elections. [03:59.49]Since early 2014, Brazilian police and government lawyers [04:05.34]have launched a major anti-corruption operation. [04:09.60]Their efforts have led to discovery of political wrongdoing [04:14.38]in every major party, except Silva's. [04:18.58]If no candidate wins a majority of the votes on Sunday, [04:23.26]an election with only the top two candidates will be held October 28. [04:29.63]I'm Jonathan Evans. [04:32.19]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM