Brazil's Bolsonaro, Lula head in a debate

Brazilian supporters held rallies for presidential candidates on Sunday as leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro prepared for their first televised debate with just one week left in the campaign.



Pro-Bolsonaro crowds wearing Brazil's national colors of yellow, green and blue packed Paulista Avenue in Sao Paulo's financial center, where the candidate addressed the crowd.



Lula supporters wearing red, symbolic of his Workers' Party, filled Brasilia's plaza of government buildings and students backing the president protested against Bolsonaro in Rio de Janeiro.



Polls show a close race for the October 25 runoff, with Bolsonaro holding a slight advantage after finishing nearly 2 percentage points ahead of Lula in the election's first round on October 4.



Both candidates hope to engage the 33 million voters who stayed home in the election's first round, equal to about one in five eligible voters.