Jair Bolsonaro, the populist former army captain who led a wave of support for the far-Right in Brazil's election, said he would not moderate his hardline views as he began his final push to lead the country.

Brazil's political landscape was shaken to the core on Sunday as Mr Bolsonaro took a seemingly unassailable lead in the first round of the presidential ballot while his party Social Liberal Party made huge gains in Congress.

In his first interview since the vote, Mr Bolsonaro said he would stick to his to his uncompromising Right-wing messages and not become a "peace and love" candidate just to win more votes.

His rival, centre-Left candidate Fernando Haddad, pledged to unite moderates across the country to create a broad centrist coalition to challenge the “anti-democratic threat” of Mr Bolsonaro in Latin America's largest democracy.

Mr Bolsonaro secured 46 per cent of the vote, beating Mr Haddad's 29 per cent, but falling just shy of the absolute majority required to win the election in the first round. Meanwhile, Mr Bolsonaro's far-Right Social Liberal Party gained a massive 51 seats in the lower house of Congress, making it the second largest party in the chamber.