Bolsonaro calls for vote result to be 'annulled'
Flávio Bolsonaro is calling for Brazil’s election results to be “annulled” after his loss to Lula and says he will not concede defeat to the incumbent president.
His reported comments come after he said a supreme court judge’s ruling extending voting for two hours on Monday was “unacceptable”.
We’ll have more on this and Lula’s comments from his victory speech soon.
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Flávio Bolsonaro is reportedly saying that the extension of voting hours in the election runoff was unacceptable.
The defeated senator’s comments come after Brazil’s supreme court extended voting time by two hours on Monday at the request of both candidates.
As mentioned earlier, Lula’s request came after issues in nine states with buses that provide transportation to polls. Bolsonaro’s was due to heavy rains in the nation’s south.
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We will change the way we run this country, Lula says in victory speech
Lula is saying his campaign defeated foreign intervention through digital platforms and that the platforms need to be regulated.
He also said in speaking after his election victory that his campaign managed to convince people that voting was extremely important to safeguard democracy in Brazil.
His party would change the way it ran the country and would make people participate more in the decision-making process, he said, quoted by Reuters.
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Luiz is delivering a victory speech to a São Paulo hall packed with supporters after being re-elected Brazilian president.
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Global leaders react to Lula victory
As we await Lula speaking in São Paulo after his historic win, here are some of the reactions from political leaders in the region and beyond, care of Reuters.
Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum:
Long live democracy, the people of Brazil won. Congratulations, President Lula!
Paraguayan president Santiago Peña:
Congratulations Lula on your election as president of Brazil. I salute the Brazilian people for this great democratic journey.
Paraguay and Brazil share a common agenda of integration and development. We will continue working together for the well-being of our people.
Uruguayan president Yamandú Orsi:
I just spoke with the president-elect of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a friend.
I congratulated him on the victory and on the democratic celebration that an electoral process represents.
Bolivian president Rodrigo Paz:
I congratulate President Lula on his victory. Bolivia and Brazil are neighbouring and brother countries, united by a shared history and common challenges.
We will continue working together to strengthen our relationship and generate more opportunities for our nations.
Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel:
Dear brother Lula, on behalf of the Cuban government and people, I congratulate you for this historic victory that ensures the continuity of the path of peace, sovereignty, and social justice embarked upon by the Brazilian people under your leadership.
Panamanian president José Raúl Mulino:
I congratulate the Brazilian people for this democratic day and especially President Lula for the victory! We will continue working together for our countries.
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Lula is about to come on stage at a conference hall in São Paulo and it is absolutely packed with ecstatic supporters and allies.
They are standing in front of a giant Brazil flag and look over the moon.
“This means that our democracy and our sovereignty are still alive,” congresswoman Tabata Amaral told me as she arrived.
Hundreds of supporters have packed the hall chanting:
Lula! The warrior! Of the Brazilian people!
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More than half an hour has passed since the result was announced and there is still no sign of far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro in the area where dozens of journalists are waiting at the Brasília mansion where he followed the count.
During the evening, smoke could be seen and the smell of a lively barbecue filled the air, but it ended with guests leaving looking dejected. One of them approached the press to shout that “it was the fucking north-east’s fault”, insulting the region where Lula has historically won most of his votes.
Four years ago, when Jair Bolsonaro lost to Lula, supporters of the former president also directed prejudice at people from the region.
Bolsonaro’s press officer had said earlier that he would address the nation after the count, but since Lula’s victory was announced his team has gone silent and journalists do not know when, or whether, it will happen.
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The incumbent, who had lost by 2.2 million votes three weeks ago, has now won by 4.3 million.
The 80-year-old leftist appears to have made up much of the difference through what his allies had identified as his main opportunity: persuading his voters to turn out.
After a record abstention rate of 21.08% in the first round, which disproportionately affected Lula voters because they tend to live farther from polling stations, the rate fell to 19.21%.
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Lula is the first candidate in Brazil’s democratic history to overturn a first-round defeat in a runoff.
Brazil’s electoral court announced a short while ago that the leftist president has won against the far-right Bolsonaro and been elected for a fourth non-consecutive term.
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Key event
Here are some of the images coming in from Brazil as Lula stages a stunning comeback against Bolsonaro to secure another term as president.
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Lula defeats Bolsonaro to win historic fourth term
Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has staged a dramatic election fightback and defeated his far-right opponent Flávio Bolsonaro to claim a historic fourth term in power.
With nearly 99% of votes counted the 80-year-old leftist received 51.75% of the vote to his 45-year-old rival’s 48.25%, Tom Phillips and Tiago Rogero report.
Lula narrowly lost the first round of the election to Bolsonaro in early October, casting his political future into doubt and plunging progressive Brazilians into three weeks of despair. Never, since the return of democracy in the 1980s, has the first round runner-up won the second vote.
But Lula did precisely that on Sunday, prompting joyous scenes on the streets of São Paulo, where he had been following the count, and at the hotel where he was watching the count.
For Lula, who turns 81 on Tuesday, the victory represents a sensational final chapter in a storied political career that began when he emerged as a union leader in São Paulo’s industrial suburbs in the late 1970s.
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Lula defeats Bolsonaro – electoral court
Brazil’s electoral court has just announced that leftist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeated far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro and was elected president of Brazil for a fourth non-consecutive term.
Lula is the first candidate in Brazil’s democratic history to overturn a first-round defeat in a runoff.
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Reginaldo Lopes, a key Lula ally and congressman, has just marched into the hall where Lula is about to speak, and he is in very high spirits believing Lula has won.
I spoke to him as he arrived and he told me:
I feel incredible. We are going to win these elections... because the people know that the Bolsonaro family will never deserve to occupy the presidential palace. The presidential palace is a place for people who are sensitive ... and in our next term we are going to see a revolution.
I asked him what a Lula victory would mean for Brazil and he replied:
This is Brazil telling the world that the extreme right is fascist, that the extreme right is against black people, is against the poor, against the state, against gay people ... We are going to reorganize the democratic forces [in this country.
Lula is expected to arrive shortly and there are tears of joy as he closes in on a historic victory
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Lula win predicted by key pollster
Datafolha, one of Brazil’s most established polling institutes and owned by the Folha de S Paulo newspaper, has projected that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has completed his comeback against far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro and will be the president of Brazil for a fourth time.
The institute uses data from the official count and, “through its own system”, makes a projection, which is already the headline in Folha and other Brazilian media outlets.
At Bolsonaro’s headquarters in Brasília, the silence has been deafening since Lula retook the lead over the senator.
Many of his guests, who arrived celebrating, wearing Brazil shirts and cheering like after goals every time an update showed him ahead, have already started leaving with dejected expressions and without speaking to the press.
Bolsonaro is expected to make a statement shortly after the count is completed.
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Lula is reportedly holding a narrow lead over Flávio Bolsonaro with 75% of Brazil’s votes counted.
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It’s now 51% Lula and 48.9% Bolsonaro with nearly 75% of votes counted.
Lula seems to be closing in on victory and the mood in his camp is increasingly excited.
This would be an absolutely sensational comeback from one of the biggest figures in the modern history of Latin American politics.
Lula has edged further ahead in the latest figures, reportedly taking 50.92% to Bolsonaro’s 49.08% with 69.92% of ballots counted.
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The celebratory mood that swept Flávio Bolsonaro’s headquarters moments ago when he overtook Lula in the vote count has disappeared since the president began closing the gap and moved back into the lead.
Despite the earlier celebrations, the atmosphere has in some ways been tense since the start of the evening.
Bolsonaro’s campaign is showing signs that it may be preparing the ground not to concede if he is defeated.
One of the most popular figures in Bolsonaro’s party, congressman Nikolas Ferreira, appeared unusually tense while speaking to journalists – unlike the jokey demeanour he usually has in front of the cameras.
He posted on social media:
Either we win. Or we win. You’ve been warned.
There were screams of joy in Lula’s hotel as he took the lead a few minutes ago. With nearly half of votes counted he now has 50.15% to Bolsonaro’s 49.85%.
“It’s going to work out! It’s going to work out! It has to!” one official told me.
The mood here is increasingly upbeat with Bolsonaro’s path to victory looking increasingly tricky.
Lula’s main bet in trying to overturn Bolsonaro’s lead was to increase turnout, after abstention reached a record high in the first round – which, according to many polls, disproportionately affected the leftist’s voters, who generally live farther from polling stations.
The figures are not yet final, but with 24.4% of polling stations counted, they indicated an abstention rate of 19.38%, down from 21.08% in the first round.
Abstention usually rises in Brazilian runoffs – the only exception was in 2022, when the tight contest between Lula and Jair Bolsonaro brought more voters to the polls in the final round.
Meanwhile, hundreds of Lula supporters have camped out on Paulista Avenue to watch the vote count, which started at 7pm local time.
Among them is Camilo Buarque, 35, who came with a bright red banner reading: “Lula: My President”.
“I feel so very happy being here and being here fighting for Lula,” Buarque says, predicting his leader will beat Bolsonaro.
“My confidence comes from the energy and the happiness and the love of these people [around me]. This is democracy,” Buarque says as the first results come in, giving Lula the lead. Fireworks exploded in the air above him as the crowd celebrated the early lead.
João Felipe, a 27-year-old logistics worker, is also there waiting for what he hopes will be a huge Lula party.
“I’ve always been poor and Lula was a very important person when it came to helping people improve their lives,” he says.
“Lula is going to turn this election around. Long live democracy,” Felipe predicts.
“My heart is beating a thousand beats a second but I’m confident,” said his partner, Ester Almeida, 28.
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Flávio Bolsonaro is following the count from the mansion of one of his campaign coordinators in a wealthy area of the capital, Brasília. The dozens of journalists present are being kept separate from Bolsonaro and allied politicians, but from time to time they can hear bursts of celebration – like after a goal – whenever the count is updated and Bolsonaro narrows the gap with Lula.
When, with 13.65% of the vote counted, Flávio moved just slightly ahead with 50.01%, an AI-generated funk track began playing loudly and the senator’s guests started chanting a line commonly heard in Brazilian football stadiums: “Go at him, Flávio.”
And just like that, the race is already tightening further. Bolsonaro now has 50.01% of the vote, while Lula has 49.99% of the vote with just over 13.5% of ballots counted.
With 5% of votes counted Lula has taken an early lead with 51% of votes to Bolsonaro’s 48.87%. This is going to be a tight race and a very long night.
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One of the most popular figures in Flávio Bolsonaro’s party, congressman Nikolas Ferreira, indicated that the far right could use the extension of voting hours as grounds to challenge the election result in the event of a victory by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Speaking to journalists outside the mansion in Brasília where Bolsonaro was due to follow the count, Ferreira said that “the only person harmed” by the extension was the senator – without, however, mentioning the voters who, as reports throughout the day showed, had been unable to vote because they had no transport.
“The extension only helps whoever is losing,” said the 30-year-old politician who, in the first round, became the most-voted federal congressman in Brazilian history, with 3.1 million votes. He added that justice Cristiano Zanin “wanted to disrupt the election” by issuing the ruling.
Bolsonaro’s campaign chief, senator Rogério Marinho, echoed that line and called the justice’s ruling an “intervention”.
“I sincerely hope common sense prevails and that any judicial coup or administrative manoeuvre does not succeed, for the sake of democracy,” he posted on social media.
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Polls close (again) in Brazil runoff election
Now two hours after the initial extension, polls have officially closed in Brazil (save for another surprise extension). Ballot count has begun.
Although voting time was extended across the country, some polling stations had already closed by the time that decision was announced. As Brazil uses electronic voting machines, once they are closed, they cannot be re-opened.
It’s not clear if certain polling stations had restrictions on if people who arrived after the initial deadline were allowed to vote, as rules usually stipulate that only people in line can still vote after the polls close.
The fact that ballot counting was already underway when the polls were suddenly ordered to remain open has led to some confusion and concerns about the integrity of the election results.
Battle over Meta’s alleged Bolsonaro bias intensified before presidential runoff
Five days after his defeat in the first round of the Brazilian presidential election, leftwing president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva spent almost 24 hours unable to boost his Instagram posts, while his opponent, far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro, could.
Lula’s lawyers included the episode in a list of incidents that they submitted to the electoral court and international observers as “evidence” that Meta, Instagram’s owner, was actively trying to interfere in Brazil’s election in Bolsonaro’s favour.
Reports from Lula supporters saying their content had been removed or its reach restricted flooded social media in Brazil, while about a dozen watchdogs and research groups published reports describing what they called “indications” that Meta may have favoured the senator’s campaign.
Meta called Lula’s allegations “false and unfounded”, saying there had been “technical incidents” that affected campaigns from “different parts of the political spectrum”.
The controversy fuelled the electoral battle between Lula and Bolsonaro and gained further traction after the electoral court ordered Meta not to give the candidates “unequal treatment”.
Related: Battle over Meta’s alleged Bolsonaro bias intensifies days before Brazil presidential runoff
Lula supporters are starting to gather on Paulista Avenue, at the heart of São Paulo, in anticipation of a Lula victory.
The mood is upbeat but tense, amid suspicions that there has been a deliberate pro-Bolsonaro campaign to sabotage public transport systems to stop Lula voters reaching polling stations across the country.
Many people on Paulista Avenue outside the iconic São Paulo Museum of Art suspect foul play from Bolsonaro-supporting politicians and business people.
“I think it’s another coup attempt that the extreme right is trying in Brazil. But we need to really fight so we can win,” said Lucas Lopes, a 32-year-old from São Paulo who works with public relations.
“I’m really worried but I’m optimistic,” Lopes added as dozens of Lula supporters blocked the roads and danced with banners and flags.
“It’s a coup,” agreed Caio Marques, a 40-year-old photographer from Franca, a city in the interior of São Paulo state. “Their arrogance is such that they think they have already won and can do whatever they please and won’t be punished.”
Marques’s partner, Gabriela Leôncio, said: “They are [stopping] public transport in strategic places where Lula has historically had more votes. Where Lula has an advantage, people haven’t managed to get to their polling stations ... They are trying several different types of coup.”
Marques predicted the ploy would fail. “I have faith it won’t [work] because the left is really mobilized,” he said. “I’ll be sincere: in the first round the left failed. But in the second round they woke up ... and there is no coup that will take this away from us.”
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Could highly organised pop fans clinch victory for Brazil’s Lula?
Earlier this month, Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, led a rally in São Paulo, as he aims to be re-elected to a fourth presidential term, and faces serious opposition from rightwinger Flávio Bolsonaro. Taking the mic before a crowd on Avenida Paulista that organisers put at more than a million, the former union leader began: “I’m not sure whether to open this speech with ‘comrades’ or ‘fandoms from all over Brazil’.” The rally was organised by Lula’s Workers’ party (PT) and a string of other leftwing groups – but the spark came from pop music fandoms.
More than 600 Brazilian fanbase groups for Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, Katseye, Demi Lovato, Harry Styles, Katy Perry, Selena Gomez, as well as Brazilian stars such as Anitta, Marina Sena and Ludmilla among others, all came together to back Lula, waging an intense online campaign as soon as Lula’s rival, son of imprisoned former president Jair Bolsonaro, came out on top in the first round on 4 October.
When the first round results came in, “I had this feeling I’d seen it all before with Jair Bolsonaro, and that was really frustrating,” says V, an Eilish fan who helps run Info Billie Brasil, one of the country’s biggest fan communities dedicated to the US singer. “So my first reaction was to use the only communication tool we have and get our community to embrace the cause: Lula’s re-election.”
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The local electoral court ordered the immediate restoration of 100% of the bus fleet and ordered the arrest of the municipal transport secretary, Pablo Souza, on suspicion of an electoral offence and disobeying court orders. The arrest warrant could not be carried out, however, because he is in Paris on what the city government described as an “official mission”, and is not expected to return to Brazil until Monday.
Late in the afternoon, Flávio Bolsonaro also filed requests for voting to be extended by two hours in cities in the states of São Paulo, Paraná and Santa Catarina, but because of heavy rain that he said had prevented voters from turning out.
Brazilian TV crews at polling stations documented confusion among election workers who were unsure what to do because the ruling came a few minutes after the scheduled close. In some cases, electronic voting machines had already issued their final reports, preventing further votes. Others, however, had not yet closed and voting continued.
The electoral court had begun publishing results on its website, but later said that, following the supreme court’s ruling, it had suspended the count with 0.25% of votes tallied, Lula on 57.66% and Bolsonaro on 42.34%. Counting and publication of results are now expected to resume only after 7pm.
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Lula had sought the voting time extension on the grounds that, in cities across nine Brazilian states, voters were being prevented from casting their ballots because local authorities aligned with Flávio Bolsonaro were failing to provide the free public transport required by law on election day.
The incumbent had first made the request to the electoral court, which is presided over by justice Kássio Nunes Marques, an appointee of former president Jair Bolsonaro who has faced criticism over alleged bias in favour of senator Flávio Bolsonaro in electoral disputes.
Marques had not ruled on the request by the scheduled 5pm end of voting and, minutes later, Zanin granted the extension across the entire country.
The transport problems were reported by several Brazilian media outlets.
In São Paulo, Latin America’s largest city, which has 9 million voters and whose mayor is a staunch Bolsonaro supporter, Lula’s campaign told the electoral court that only 60% of buses were running – although Lula lost nationally to Bolsonaro in the first round, the incumbent won in São Paulo by 46.58% to 42.13%.
Many polls and detailed voting results show that Lula has stronger support among lower-income workers who rely most on public transport on election day.
On Sunday afternoon, Lula said that “something abominable is happening”.
“No one can give up on voting because some crooked businessman or some dishonest, criminal mayor tried to stop people from voting ... What we want is this: an election that is held, an honest election, with everyone having the right to vote, and everyone accepting the result.”
Lula compared the situation with the 2022 election, when the federal highway police under then president Jair Bolsonaro carried out roadblocks that, supreme court justices later concluded during the attempted coup trial, were intended to prevent leftist voters from casting their ballots. The force’s then director was sentenced to 24 years in prison.
In Salvador, the capital of Bahia state, also governed by a Bolsonaro supporter, which has 2 million voters and where Lula also won in the first round, Lula’s campaign said only 50% of buses were running.
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Voting time extended for an additional two hours
Scratch that. Brazilian supreme court justice Cristiano Zanin has just ordered voting in the country’s presidential runoff on Sunday to be extended by two hours, granting a request from Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s campaign.
Polls were initially set to close at 5pm Brasília time. Lula’s campaign alleged that authorities in several cities were restricting voter access to public transportation.
The decision follows allegations of attempted voter suppression in at least 10 states, where public transport appears to have been severely limited in what some suspect was a deliberate ploy to stop Lula voters reaching polling stations.
Earlier, Lula told reporters he had never before complained about elections he had been involved in, irrespective of whether he had won or lost. “But this time something abominable is happening.”
However, some polling stations may have already closed since the decision came so shortly after they were due to close. People should now be able to vote until 7pm.
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Polls close in Brazil runoff election
As the clock strikes 5pm in Brazil’s capital Brasília, polls have officially closed, though it is unclear whether either candidate’s request for voting hours to be extended in some cities will be granted.
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With only a few minutes left before poll closing time, both presidential candidates are asking Brazil’s electoral court to extend voting hours in some cities. The request from president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva came after issues in nine states with buses that provide transportation to polls. Flávio Bolsonaro’s is due to heavy rains in the nation’s south. Polls were expected to close nationwide at 5pm.
Kássio Nunes Marques, the Brazilian supreme court justice who also heads the country’s electoral court, told reporters in capital Brasilia that some cities are indeed experiencing bus shortages, but did not answer whether the voting hours will be extended, according to the AP. He did not address Bolsonaro’s request in his comments.
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Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said that many people had been “barred from voting” after buses were taken out of circulation in São Paulo and several other cities.
“We are asking the supreme court to extend the electoral process so that those who were effectively barred from voting, due to the dirty tactics of mayors, can still cast their votes,” said Lula.
Lula said 40% of buses were pulled from service in São Paulo, a problem also taking place in several cities in his native north-eastern Brazil.
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To Flávio Bolsonaro and his publicists, it must have seemed an ingenious idea that would expose his rival’s supposed crookedness on the eve of Brazil’s presidential election.
But the far-right politician’s decision to attend a primetime television debate against his leftwing opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, with the word “corrupto” (corrupt) written on the palm of his hand has backfired.
Rather than drawing attention to the incumbent’s alleged misdeeds, many of the programme’s millions of viewers sarcastically took Bolsonaro’s handwritten message as an admission of his own guilt.
Related: Flavio Bolsonaro’s ‘corrupto’ stunt sparks viral meme before Brazil election runoff
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Exclusive: Ex-Lula environmental official warns of Amazon destruction if Flávio Bolsonaro wins presidency
Marina Silva, the former Brazilian environment minister, has said that if Flávio Bolsonaro becomes president he will seek to finish the “perverse project” of rampant rainforest destruction initiated by his jailed far-right father.
The Amazon was thrown into chaos during Jair Bolsonaro’s 2019-2022 presidency, when Brazil’s environment and Indigenous protection agencies were gutted and environmental criminals ran riot, causing surges in deforestation and violence.
Silva, a world-renowned environmentalist who was Lula’s environment minister until April, says a second Bolsonaro presidency will spell disaster for the globally crucial ecosystem, for its inhabitants and for the climate crisis.
“I’ve no doubt that this time they will try to finish the perverse project they started with [Jair] Bolsonaro. If they are elected – and God, and the Brazilian people, willing they won’t be – they will use their time to try to speed up as much as possible all of the regressions they can, including to keep themselves in power,” says Silva.
“The vision they have for the Amazon is the same vision they have for everything. They are denialists. Their vision is that the forest must be removed for economic activities,” she adds. “They will again encourage illegal mining, the invasion of Indigenous lands, and violence against Indigenous and Quilombola communities.”
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A scandal engulfing Brazil’s top court could return the Bolsonaros to power
Thundering to a crowd of thousands of far-right supporters in São Paulo on 7 September, Brazil’s Independence Day, the senator Flávio Bolsonaro focused less on his opponent in the presidential election, the leftist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, than on someone who is not running at all.
“Whoever votes for Lula is voting for Alexandre de Moraes,” Bolsonaro shouted, referring to the shaven-headed supreme court justice once described as “Voldemort” by Elon Musk.
Although Lula did not appoint Moraes to the court, Bolsonaro’s supporters have linked the two men ever since the judge oversaw the case in which the senator’s father, the former president Jair Bolsonaro, was sentenced to 27 years in prison for attempting a coup.
Just days before the election runoff, Moraes was once again at the centre of a presidential scandal – one that Lula believes may have helped Flávio Bolsonaro overtake him to emerge as the frontrunner. The justice once hailed as democracy’s “saviour” for containing Jair Bolsonaro may now have helped pave the way for the family’s return to power.
The scandal began with a police investigation, which found that Moraes’s wife’s law firm had a contract worth about £20m with Daniel Vorcaro, the banker accused of orchestrating Brazil’s largest banking fraud. Text messages also emerged suggesting a close relationship between Moraes and Vorcaro, though the judge denies the messages are authentic.
Investigations subsequently revealed that at least four other justices had links to the disgraced banker, meaning half of the court’s 10 current justices have been drawn into the scandal.
Related: How a scandal engulfing Brazil’s top court could return the Bolsonaros to power
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva v Flávio Bolsonaro: Brazil presidential runoff to decide direction of nation
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the Brazilian presidential runoff.
Leftwing president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and senator Flávio Bolsonaro faced a second round of voting after neither secured more than 50% of the vote in the first round.
Bolsonaro, the eldest son of disgraced ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, pulled off a surprise first-round victory, signaling a resurgence of the far-right in Brazil. But polls appeared to have narrowed a few days before Sunday’s vote, with a Quaest poll reported by Reuters showing Bolsonaro on 45% of the vote, with Lula on 44%. A week earlier, Bolsonaro had 46% of the vote, compared with Lula’s 44%.
In the first-round election earlier this month, Bolsonaro secured 47% of the vote, compared with Lula’s 45%.
Sunday’s election is a test for incumbent president Lula: can he can rally enough support to overturn Bolsonaro’s lead?
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