Tag: Lula da Silva

• Friday, October 2nd 2026 - 07:53 UTC

  Brazil heads to the polls without a single debate between Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro

  

  Brazilian broadcaster Globo on Thursday cancelled, an hour before it was due to start, the last presidential debate scheduled before Sunday's first round, following a series of court rulings and the absence of both President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro. The two leading candidates thus head to the polls without having faced each other in a single televised debate during the entire campaign.

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• Tuesday, September 29th 2026 - 21:37 UTC

  Lula remark on medical exams sparks controversy five days before the vote

  

  A remark by Brazilian President and re-election candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva about men's reluctance to undergo prostate examinations has sparked a controversy in the final stretch of the campaign, after opposition figures linked it to child sexual abuse. Lula's campaign has taken the matter to the Superior Electoral Court.

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• Tuesday, September 29th 2026 - 07:21 UTC

  Lula widens his first-round lead to five points, but the runoff remains tied

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has widened his lead over Senator Flávio Bolsonaro to five points in voting intentions for Sunday's first round, according to a Quaest poll released on Monday, though the two remain tied in a prospective October 25 runoff.

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• Sunday, September 27th 2026 - 12:26 UTC

  Brazil reaches the election with its top court under suspicion and the candidates tied

  

  Brazil votes next Sunday in a presidential election that arrives with the Supreme Federal Court mired in its worst institutional crisis since the return to democracy, the right's candidate formally under investigation in the same case, and the two leading contenders tied within the margin of error in every poll.

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• Friday, September 25th 2026 - 00:10 UTC

  Nine days from the vote, neither Brazilian front-runner comes close to 50%

  

  Neither of Brazil's two leading presidential candidates is approaching the threshold needed to win outright on October 4, according to the latest Datafolha poll, which puts President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on 40% of voting intentions and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro on 36%.

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• Tuesday, September 22nd 2026 - 19:53 UTC

  Lula warns against foreign interference in Brazil's election at the UN Assembly

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva warned the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that his country will not allow domestic or foreign actors to undermine the October 4 election, in a speech combining a defence of national sovereignty with a broader critique of the multilateral system.

• Monday, September 21st 2026 - 10:42 UTC

  The pending fiscal adjustment dominates the final stretch of Brazil's presidential race

  

  Brazil heads into the October 4 general election with a growing economy and unemployment at record lows, but with one debate dominating the campaign's final stretch: the cut in public spending that analysts and business leaders agree will fall to whoever wins, whether President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva or Senator Flávio Bolsonaro.

• Thursday, September 17th 2026 - 17:51 UTC

  Two weeks to Brazilian presidential election, Central Bank cuts interest rate for the fifth time running

  

  With presidential elections in two weeks’ time, Brazil’s central bank cut its benchmark interest rate for the fifth straight time. The bank lowered the so-called Selic rate from 14% to 13.75%, and is part of a cycle that began in March after almost two years of rate hikes.

• Thursday, August 27th 2026 - 08:09 UTC

  Argentine lawmakers travel to Brasília to repair relations with Brazil

  

  A delegation of Argentine deputies and senators from opposition parties will travel to Brasília next Wednesday with the aim of repairing bilateral relations, strained since President Javier Milei referred to his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in offensive terms. The group is due to meet the Brazilian Senate's foreign relations committee, the foreign ministry and representatives of the presidency.

• Tuesday, August 18th 2026 - 06:56 UTC

  Petrobras confirms oil off the Amapá coast but cannot yet estimate the volume

  

  Brazil's state-controlled Petrobras confirmed on Monday the presence of oil in the Morpho exploratory well, located in ultra-deep waters off the northern state of Amapá, in the Foz do Amazonas basin. The company cautioned that it cannot yet estimate the volume found or the viability of commercial production.