In their first live debate Sunday, two weeks before the date of the second round of the presidential elections in Brazil, Brazilian far-right President Jair Bolsonaro and his leftist rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva exchanged insults and insults

Lula accused his opponent Bolsonaro of being the "king of fake news", to which the latter responded by accusing him of lying, corruption and possessing a "disgraceful" record, in a sharp verbal duel before the sharply polarized electoral showdown on October 30.
Former President Lula da Silva (2003-2010), who is seeking to return to power at the age of 76, focused his sharp attack on Bolsonaro on his handling of the covid epidemic, which claimed the lives of 687 thousand people in Brazil, which was preceded in the number of deaths only by the United States.
By refusing to buy vaccines and promoting unverified medicines, Bolsonaro "carries the weight of these deaths on his shoulders,"Lula said.
"No other leader in the world manipulated the epidemic and death the way I did,"he continued.
Minimal interference by the moderators of the debate increased its intensity, and the 67-year-old Bolsonaro tried to focus on the issue of corruption, a weakness for Lula, who was imprisoned in 2018 on controversial corruption charges that were later dropped.
Bolsonaro, a hard-line conservative who was elected president in 2019, finished second in the first-round election on October 2 with 43 percent of the vote, compared to 48 for his rival Lula.
But many opinion polls would have given Lula a double-digit lead.
Bolsonaro's stronger-than-expected performance in the first round gave him momentum on his way to the run-off, and also increased speculation that another surprise could happen in two weeks.
According to a poll conducted by the "Datafolha institute", Lula received 53 percent of the vote before the second round against 47 percent for Bolsonaro.