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🗓️ 3 October 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Jair Bolsonaro, the incumbent president, did unexpectedly well—giving his campaign a boost and foreshadowing a tough run-up to the second round. Malawi’s incipient democracy stands as a shining regional example, but remaking its economy has proved even harder than ousting its undemocratic leader. And why one tank is a particularly handsome prize amid Ukraine’s growing pile of captured Russian kit.
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0:35.9 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. |
0:38.9 | Today from London, I'm your host Jason Palmer. |
0:42.1 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
0:50.4 | In Malawi, the memories of beatings and shootings from three years ago are still fresh. |
0:55.8 | The democracy that bloomed from that violent transition is held up as a regional success story. |
1:01.3 | Remaking Malawi's economy though is proving harder still. |
1:07.3 | And Ukraine's forces have won lots of Russian military kit in the course of the invasion. |
1:12.8 | Much of it isn't of great interest, |
1:14.9 | but one particular tank will prove a tremendous prize |
1:18.8 | in the current conflict and during any future Russian adventurism. |
1:27.9 | First up though. |
1:36.4 | For months, Poles in Brazil had been predicting an end to the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro. |
1:42.0 | Last night almost 120 million votes were counted across the country, |
1:50.6 | one of the largest democracies on earth and the first round of the presidential elections. |
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