Brazil’s Bolsonaro suffers wave of defeats in mayoral races

SAO PAULO (AP) — President Jair Bolsonaro suffered big losses in Brazil’s just-completed municipal elections, with only five mayoral candidates he supported winning their races and none of them in the most important cities. The president’s worst rebuff came in his hometown of Rio de Janeiro, where Mayor Marcelo Crivella was battered in a runoff election Sunday, losing to his center-right predecessor, Eduardo Paes, by 64% to 36%. Crivella, an evangelical pastor, repeatedly used the president in his campaign to try to turn his fortunes. Another big defeat for Bolsonaro came in Fortaleza, Brazil’s fifth most populous city,...