Tag: Lula da Silva

• 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.

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• Tuesday, October 20th 2026 - 15:29 UTC

  Milei calls Lula a “leftist thief” and says he hopes he will not “steal” Brazil’s election

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei attacked his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva again on Tuesday, accusing him of a “dirty campaign” and saying he hoped Lula would not try to “steal” Sunday’s presidential runoff, in which he faces Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, whom Milei has publicly backed.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Monday, October 12th 2026 - 10:50 UTC

  Lula takes to the streets of São Paulo to close the gap two weeks before the runoff

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva led a large rally on São Paulo’s Avenida Paulista on Sunday to relaunch his campaign two weeks before the October 25 runoff, in which he trails Senator Flávio Bolsonaro. “This country cannot lose its democracy,” he told a largely young crowd.

• Thursday, October 8th 2026 - 08:10 UTC

  Flávio Bolsonaro proposes constitutional reform to overhaul the courts and lower the criminal age

  

  Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, who will face Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil's presidential runoff on October 25, has said that if he wins he will use his Liberal Party's congressional bloc to push a constitutional reform that would change the judiciary, lower the age of criminal responsibility from 18 to 16 and abolish presidential re-election.

• Tuesday, October 6th 2026 - 22:15 UTC

  Lula targets non-voters and over-70s to overturn the first-round result

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will focus his campaign for the October 25 runoff on mobilising those who did not vote on Sunday, particularly people over 70, and on winning over centrist voters, after finishing almost two points behind Senator Flávio Bolsonaro in the first round.

• Monday, October 5th 2026 - 17:18 UTC

  “The end of the PT era is decreed,” says Flávio Bolsonaro after winning the first round

  

  Senator Flávio Bolsonaro celebrated his first-round victory in Brazil's presidential election in Brasília with a message focused on change. “Change, the word is change. Brazil can't take any more. The end of the PT era is decreed,” he told reporters outside his campaign headquarters.

• Monday, October 5th 2026 - 17:08 UTC

  Lula bets on education and non-voters to overturn the result in the runoff

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has set education, research and industrial policy as the pillars of his campaign for the October 25 runoff, and urged the more than 30 million Brazilians who abstained on Sunday to vote, after finishing behind Senator Flávio Bolsonaro in the first round.