Tag: flavio Bolsonaro

• Tuesday, September 29th 2026 - 21:00 UTC

  A falsehood about Brazil's patron saint pits Supreme Court justices against each other mid-campaign

  

  A false report that presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro backed stripping Our Lady of Aparecida of her title as Brazil's patron saint has produced contradictory rulings from three Supreme Federal Court justices, a clash with the Catholic bishops' conference and a dispute dominating the final week of campaigning before Sunday's vote.

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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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• 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.

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• 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.

• 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.