Tag: Brazil Elections 2022

• Thursday, November 24th 2022 - 09:44 UTC

  Bolsonaro's party officially questions outcome of elections

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's Liberal Party (PL) called for a partial annulment of the Oct. 30 elections whereby the opposition candidate and former head of state Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva of the Workers' Party (PT)was chosen to return to the Planalto Palace on Jan. 1.

• Thursday, October 20th 2022 - 07:46 UTC

  Brazilian First Lady likens Lula to cancer

  

  Brazilian First Lady Michelle Bolsonaro described former President Luiz Iácio Lula Da Silva as the country's “cancer” that needs to be beaten in the Oct. 30 runoffs.

• Saturday, September 24th 2022 - 09:59 UTC

  Bolsonaro reminds voters next president will have 2 STF vacancies to fill

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Friday pledged to appoint anti-abortion judges in case he wins next month's elections for which opposition candidate Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva is reportedly the favorite, according to all polls.

• Monday, September 19th 2022 - 08:29 UTC

  Bolsonaro expresses his condolences at Lancaster House

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was among the world leaders to sign the book of condolences in London for Queen Elizabeth II's death. The South American ruler is expected to take part in Monday's funeral and then head on to New York for the United Nations General Assembly.

• Friday, September 9th 2022 - 17:09 UTC

  Lula likens Bolsonaro's Independence Day ceremony to the Ku Kux Klan

  

  Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva likened the incumbent Jair Bolsonaro's Independence Day parade (Sept. 7) to a Ku Klux Klan show in which the current head of state just “lacked the hood.”

• Tuesday, August 23rd 2022 - 17:39 UTC

  Bolsonaro will respect the elections' outcome provided they are clean

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said Monday evening in a TV interview that he will accept the election's outcome provided they are clear, and warned he was being pressured into becoming a dictator.

• Tuesday, August 16th 2022 - 08:27 UTC

  Lula wants BRICS to broker ceasefire in Ukraine

  

  Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who leads all polls to return to the Planalto Palace after the October elections, met with Russia's Ambassador to Brasilia Alexei Labetski and suggested the BRICS group the two countries share with India, China and South Africa should broker a cease-fire in Ukraine.

• Tuesday, August 9th 2022 - 21:32 UTC

  Bolsonaro says voting for Lula is like hiring traffickers to fight drug dealing

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro likened his predecessor and electoral rival Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva and the latter's running mate to notorious local drug traffickers.

• Saturday, August 6th 2022 - 05:13 UTC

  Small party adds key votes to Lula's campaign

  

  Presidential candidate Andrés Janones of the moderate Avante party Thursday stepped down from the race in order to support former President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva's bid to succeed the incumbent Jair Bolsonaro.

• Thursday, August 4th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Brazil: Subsidies help Bolsonaro narrow electoral gap from Lula

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's popularity among lower-class people was on the rise 2 months ahead of the elections, according to a survey released Wednesday.