Far-right incumbent Bolsonaro and rival Lula attract thousands of supporters to their final rallies ahead of Brazil's polarising presidential election, with new polls showing Lula scoring an outright victory
With the country deeply divided, tension is running high heading into the election which Lula is gunning to win outright, without the need for a runoff on October 30.
"We're going to win in the first round -- 64 percent of the vote," Bolsonaro's congressman son Eduardo said at Sunday's rally, repeating his father's claims that polls showing Lula in the lead are fake. Some fear a possible Brazilian version of the unrest that rocked the United States last year after Bolsonaro's political role model, Donald Trump, refused to accept electoral defeat.
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