Tag: flavio Bolsonaro

• Monday, August 31st 2026 - 22:13 UTC

  Brazil: Flávio Bolsonaro promises 500,000 prison places inspired by the Salvadoran model

  

  Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, the Liberal Party's presidential candidate and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's main rival in October's elections, met on Sunday in São Paulo with El Salvador's justice and public security minister, Gustavo Villatoro, and announced he will incorporate into his programme measures inspired by President Nayib Bukele's security policy.

• Sunday, August 16th 2026 - 22:46 UTC

  Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro open Brazil's campaign in their respective political birthplaces

  

  Brazil's two leading presidential candidates launched their campaigns for the October 4 elections on Sunday with rallies at the venues associated with their political trajectories. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva drew more than 10,000 supporters to the Vila Euclides stadium in São Bernardo do Campo, in São Paulo's industrial belt, while Senator Flávio Bolsonaro gathered his backers on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro.

• Saturday, August 15th 2026 - 05:01 UTC

  Rejection of Flávio Bolsonaro exceeds Lula's despite his gains in voting intention

  

  Senator Flávio Bolsonaro registers a 54% rejection rate among Brazilian voters, two points above the 52% recorded by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, according to the Quaest poll released on Friday, two days before campaigning officially opens for the October 4 elections.

• Thursday, August 13th 2026 - 22:34 UTC

  Brazil: Two days before the deadline, Bolsonaro's party cannot register Flávio as candidate

  

  Brazil's Liberal Party was unable on Thursday to file Senator Flávio Bolsonaro's presidential candidacy with the Superior Electoral Court, after the electoral system recorded him as a member of a different party. The deadline for submitting candidacies expires on Saturday at 7pm.

• Thursday, August 13th 2026 - 09:03 UTC

  Lula's runoff lead over Flávio Bolsonaro narrows to 8.9 points, CNT/MDA poll finds

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva holds an 8.9-point lead over Senator Flávio Bolsonaro in a potential runoff, according to the CNT/MDA poll released on Tuesday. The gap stood at 12.5 points in the June survey.

• Wednesday, August 12th 2026 - 06:21 UTC

  Michelle and Flávio Bolsonaro appear together for the first time since their June rift

  

  Brazil's former first lady, Michelle Bolsonaro, and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, the Liberal Party's presidential candidate, appeared together in public on Tuesday for the first time since the falling-out between them in late June. The meeting took place at the party's headquarters in Brasília, where they recorded campaign material and prayed together.

• Sunday, July 26th 2026 - 22:24 UTC

  Milei backs Flávio Bolsonaro's candidacy, drawing a rebuke from Brazil's governing party

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei on Saturday endorsed the presidential candidacy of Senator Flávio Bolsonaro at the Liberal Party (PL) National Convention in São Paulo, in a speech with sharp criticism of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva that drew rejection from Brazil's governing party and a response from the judiciary.

• Tuesday, July 7th 2026 - 21:10 UTC

  Flávio Bolsonaro urges Washington to delay Brazil tariffs until after October vote

  

  Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, the leading right-wing presidential hopeful, asked Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday to postpone until after the October elections a 25% tariff that the United States is considering imposing on Brazilian goods. He made the request during a public hearing before the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) in Washington.

• Wednesday, March 11th 2026 - 03:55 UTC

  Lula withdraws from Kast inauguration amid presence of Flávio Bolsonaro

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has canceled a planned trip to Chile to attend José Antonio Kast’s inauguration on Wednesday and will instead be represented at the ceremony by Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira. Brazilian officials said the change was due to “scheduling reasons.”

• Saturday, February 28th 2026 - 02:22 UTC

  Poll shows Flávio Bolsonaro drawing level with Lula in a potential Brazil runoff

  

  Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro are virtually tied in a simulated second-round vote for October’s election, according to an AtlasIntel survey conducted for Bloomberg News — the first poll to show the pair at parity in a head-to-head scenario.