Tag: flavio Bolsonaro

• Sunday, October 25th 2026 - 01:30 UTC

  Lula accuses Bolsonaro of “licking Trump’s boots” in the final debate

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Friday accused his runoff rival, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, of “licking the boots” of US President Donald Trump during the last televised debate before Sunday’s election.

• Sunday, October 25th 2026 - 00:39 UTC

  Bolsonaro apologises twice to Lula in a calmer final debate as polls show a dead heat

  

  Senator Flávio Bolsonaro apologised twice to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva during the last televised debate before Sunday’s runoff in Brazil, held on Friday night on TV Globo, which was more measured in tone than the first. The candidates arrived level: the latest Datafolha poll, published on Thursday, gives each 50% of valid votes.

• Friday, October 23rd 2026 - 10:13 UTC

  Lula and Bolsonaro agree to open their bank and phone records days before the runoff

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro signed an agreement at the Superior Electoral Court on Thursday to simultaneously lift the secrecy of their bank, tax and phone records, and those of relatives and linked companies, three days before Sunday’s presidential runoff. Release of the data now depends on a decision by Judge André Mendonça, the case rapporteur.

• Friday, October 23rd 2026 - 10:02 UTC

  Lula and Bolsonaro chase non-voters in the final stretch of Brazil’s campaign

  

  Two days before Brazil’s presidential runoff, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro are focusing their final efforts on the same target: the roughly 33 million voters who stayed away in the first round. With polls showing a statistical tie and just 1% or 2% undecided, mobilising those who stayed at home on October 4 could decide the outcome.

• Friday, October 23rd 2026 - 09:48 UTC

  Sanders and Democratic lawmakers ask Meta to explain alleged favouritism towards Bolsonaro

  

  US Senator Bernie Sanders and 11 other Democratic lawmakers on Thursday asked Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg to explain the alleged unequal treatment by Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp of the campaigns of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, who face each other on Sunday in Brazil’s presidential runoff.

• Wednesday, October 21st 2026 - 14:21 UTC

  Lula ramps up public handouts in the final stretch of Brazil’s presidential campaign

  

  Some 20 million Brazilian families begin receiving this week a 15% increase in the Bolsa Família social programme, the centrepiece of a broad package of aid, subsidies and tax cuts announced by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the final stretch of the campaign for Sunday’s runoff, in which he faces Senator Flávio Bolsonaro in a statistical tie.

• Monday, October 19th 2026 - 06:15 UTC

  Lula asks Bolsonaro whether he will wield “Milei’s chainsaw” in a heated debate

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva asked his rival, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, on Sunday whether he intends to apply Argentine President Javier Milei’s “chainsaw” to cut 250 billion reais in public spending, during a first televised debate marked by mutual accusations of corruption, a week before the October 25 runoff.

• Sunday, October 18th 2026 - 19:43 UTC

  Lula’s campaign takes alleged Meta favouritism towards Bolsonaro to the UN and federal police

  

  The coalition backing Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s re-election on Saturday reported to the UN alleged unequal treatment by Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, in favour of his rival, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, and asked the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Federal Police to investigate possible illegal funding of his campaign. Meta attributes the incidents to technical errors.

• Saturday, October 17th 2026 - 06:23 UTC

  Bolsonaro and Lula head into the final stretch of Brazil’s campaign in a statistical tie

  

  Senator Flávio Bolsonaro and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are heading into the final days of the campaign for the October 25 runoff in a statistical tie, according to two new polls. A Datafolha survey released on Thursday night gives Bolsonaro 51% of valid votes and Lula 49%, compared with 52% and 48% a week earlier, with a margin of error of two points.

• Tuesday, October 13th 2026 - 14:52 UTC

  Lubetkin warns Flávio Bolsonaro that “it is not easy to leave Mercosur”

  

  Uruguay’s Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin has warned Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro that “it is not easy to leave Mercosur”, in response to his criticism of the bloc during the campaign for the October 25 runoff. In the same interview, with the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo, he said Uruguay would not restore diplomatic relations with Venezuela while Delcy Rodríguez governs.