Election theme
Which American voter will be the first to ask themselves if the Haitians have left the pet diet behind, organized crime, and started taking control of Springfield?
"They understood that death gives votes" Ahead of the presidential election in Brazil, crime is ranked as the most important issue. In Rio de Janeiro, up to a third of the city is reported to be controlled by organized crime. – To enter these areas, proper military operations are required. I fought for my life, says Bernardo Leal, who has just been elected to the Rio de Janeiro state parliament. A year ago, he lost a leg in a major police operation against organized crime in Rio de Janeiro.
On October 25, it's time for the second and decisive round of elections in Brazil, where the incumbent left-wing president Lula da Silva faces the right-wing candidate Flávio Bolsonaro – former president Jair Bolsonaro's son. Crime is a key election issue, and Flavio Bolsonaro has promised, among other things, to join Trump in labeling criminal organizations as terrorists. Watch the segment on SVT Nyheter.
Here the right marches. In Springfield, Ohio, immigration policy has long been a hot issue. During Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign, he claimed that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, eat their cats and dogs and that most of them arrived illegally. Now the climate has been negatively affected and tensions have risen, according to Christobal Garcia Martinez, who works at one of the Democrats' campaign offices. Watch the segment on SVT Nyheter.