President Bolsonaro votes in presidential elections

President Jair Bolsonaro cast his ballot on Sunday as Brazilians began voting in a polarizing presidential runoff election that pits the incumbent vowing to safeguard conservative Christian values against a former president promising to return the country to a more prosperous past.

The runoff has shaped up as a close contest between Bolsonaro and his political nemesis, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.Both are well-known, divisive political figures who stir passion as much as loathing.The vote will determine if the world's fourth-largest democracy stays the same course of far-right politics or returns a leftist to the top job.

More than 120 million Brazilians are expected to cast ballots, and because the vote is conducted electronically, the final result is usually available within hours after voting stations close in the late afternoon.