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"To save the West, to save this republic."

It had been a town without any centre or public places where people might gather, he said, a problem for this "fractured republic that we have in the United States today, with so much partisanship".

As the tiny republic goes to the polls in presidential and parliamentary ballots, Assumption is a key electoral touchpoint.

Voters in the former Soviet republic go to the polls on Sunday, amid what a BBC investigation found to be a barrage of disinformation spread by a network with ties to Moscow.

The attorney general's office has alleged Eduardo Bolsonaro, a congressman, repeatedly acted to subject the interests of the republic to personal and family agendas, subjecting Brazil to threats of sanctions from foreign governments.