21-11-2019 17:17 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Brazil's Bolsonaro launches his own party in political gambit

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro launched a new political party on Thursday, the Alliance for Brazil (APB), under the banner of fighting graft and advancing Christian values, a breakaway move that could fragment his base.Hundreds of excited supporters gathered at a Brasilia hotel to listen to Bolsonaro after he led the party's first meeting, drawing up its statutes and appointing its executive committee — powers he lacked in the right-wing Social L
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