Iran congratulates Bolsonaro on winning presidential election in Brazil

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Publish Date: 10:21 - 30 October 2018
TEHRAN, October 30 - Iran’s Foreign Ministry congratulated Brazil's president-elect Jair Bolsonaro on winning the election, hoping for closer political and economic ties between the two countries during his term.

Iran congratulates Bolsonaro on winning presidential election in BrazilTEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - In a statement on Monday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi congratulated the Brazilian government and nation on holding the presidential election successfully.

Wishing good luck for president-elect Jair Bolsonaro, Qassemi expressed the hope that political and economic relations between the two countries would grow under the new Brazilian government.

“Iran and Brazil have a history of 118 years of bilateral ties, which have always followed a growing, firm and stable trend,” he added.

Supporters of Bolsonaro took the streets of Rio de Janeiro on Sunday after the far-right congressman was declared the winner of the country's presidential election by a wide margin.

Official results gave Bolsonaro a 55.2 percent share of the vote in Sunday's runoff, comfortably ahead of Fernando Haddad, the candidate of the center-left Workers' Party (PT), who had 44.8 percent.

Source: Tasnim

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