Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is ahead in the polls. But will his authoritarian rival, incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro, accept the result if he loses?
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Director of the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University
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Lecturer in Latin American Studies, University of Oxford
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Professor Emeritus of Latin American Studies and Political Science, University of Florida
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Reader in Transnational Law, King's College London
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Lecturer in Latin American History, University of Birmingham
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Constitutional Law Professor, Fundação Getulio Vargas
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Doctoral Researcher at SPRU, University of Sussex
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Lecturer in Global Religion and Politics, Lancaster University
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Lecturer in International Relations, Queen's University Belfast
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Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Investigador Postdoctoral, Universidad de Alicante
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Maître de conférences en histoire contemporaine, Université Gustave Eiffel
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Director, King's Brazil Institute and Senior Lecturer for Brazilian Studies, King's College London
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Founding Director of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre for the Public Understanding of Politics, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Modern Latin America History, University of Denver
