Rio de Janeiro | After months of pitches to voters, Brazil on Sunday (Monday AEDT) was set to decide one of Latin America’s most important elections in decades, picking between the two biggest names in modern Brazilian politics and their polar visions for the country.

The choice for Brazilians is whether to give President Jair Bolsonaro a second term, emboldening and empowering him to carry out a far-right mandate for the nation, or whether to bring back former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and return Brazil to a leftist track.