Five reasons Jair Bolsonaro won in Brazil

On Sunday, Jair Bolsonaro won the runoff of the 2018 Brazilian presidential elections with 55 percent of the vote and became the 38th president of the country. He defeated Fernando Haddad of the Workers’ Party.

Most of the coverage coming from international media has been simplistic and is almost only repeating cliches such as calling him the “Brazilian Trump” or comparing him to right-wing candidates from other parts of the world. Although there are certainly some similarities to other candidates, these comparisons must be drawn with prudence.