Bolsonaro leads but vote goes to runoff

Brazil's far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro won the first round of the presidential election on Sunday, but still faces a runoff against his leftist rival Fernando Haddad later this month, while the final outcome is still hard to predict, said a Chinese expert.

The country's Superior Electoral Court said the results confirmed that voters will be heading to the polls again for the second round of the election, as neither of the two leading candidates reached 50 percent support to win outright.

According to the official result, Bolsonaro had 46 percent compared to 29 percent for former Sao Paulo Mayor Haddad, with some 91.22 percent of the votes cast being valid.