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Montevideo, November 12th 2026 - 15:22 UTC

Tag: Lula da Silva

  • Friday, November 6th 2026 - 01:42 UTC

    Lula sees his win as “a lesson for the world” after setbacks for Netanyahu and Trump

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva described his October 25 re-election as “a lesson for the world” and linked it to the electoral setbacks suffered in recent days by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump. “In the same week, Netanyahu lost in Israel and I think my friend Trump is losing in the United States,” he said on Thursday in a live broadcast on YouTube.

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  • Thursday, October 29th 2026 - 01:30 UTC

    Bolsonaro’s exit via Argentina further strains relations between Milei and Lula

    Presidential spokesman Adrián Ravier said the government had “taken note of the result” of the Brazilian election but ruled out an official statement

    Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro’s transit through Argentina, after he left Brazil despite a court ban and flew to Miami from Puerto Iguazú following his election defeat, has opened a new front in the strained relationship between the governments of Javier Milei and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, while the Casa Rosada maintains its refusal to congratulate the Brazilian president on his re-election.

  • Wednesday, October 28th 2026 - 09:17 UTC

    Flávio Bolsonaro leaves Brazil despite a court ban and the US will grant him a visa

    A State Department official confirmed that visas would be issued for the senator and his family

    Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, defeated on Sunday by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the presidential runoff, left Brazil with his wife and two daughters despite a Supreme Federal Court order barring him from leaving the country, and the US State Department confirmed it will grant them visas. According to the newspaper O Globo, he arrived in Miami on Tuesday night.

  • Tuesday, October 27th 2026 - 16:32 UTC

    Brazil investigates whether Flávio Bolsonaro left the country via Argentina after his defeat

    Judge Alexandre de Moraes ordered Bolsonaro, who is under investigation by the court, to surrender his ordinary and diplomatic passports within 24 hours and barred him from leaving the country

    Brazil’s Federal Police are checking with Argentine authorities whether Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, defeated by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Sunday’s presidential runoff, left the country across the Argentine border, after he failed to hand over his passports within the deadline set by the Supreme Federal Court. His campaign and the Argentine government deny that he has left Brazil.

  • Monday, October 26th 2026 - 13:39 UTC

    A judge appointed by Jair Bolsonaro rejects his son’s case for annulling the election

    “Even before all these circumstances, we took all the necessary measures and were entirely successful. I repeat: there was no change resulting from the court ruling,” Nunes Marques said

    The president of Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court, Kassio Nunes Marques, who was appointed to the Supreme Federal Court by former president Jair Bolsonaro in 2020, said on Monday that the extension of voting hours did not change the result of the runoff won by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president’s son, had cited the extension in refusing to recognise his defeat and calling for the election to be annulled.

  • Monday, October 26th 2026 - 13:29 UTC

    Debt, inflation and a hostile Congress: the economic challenges of Lula’s fourth term

    Public debt has risen by more than ten points during the current term and exceeds 82% of GDP, driven by growing mandatory spending

    Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will begin his fourth term as Brazil’s president on January 1 with an economy that has grown more than expected and record-low unemployment, but with fiscal imbalances that markets punished heavily on Monday, the first trading day after his re-election. The dollar rose more than 12% at one point to 5.60 reais, the Ibovespa index triggered an automatic trading halt at the open and long-term interest rates jumped almost two points.

  • Monday, October 26th 2026 - 13:16 UTC

    Trump questions Lula’s victory as most of the region, including the right, congratulates him

    “They just applied the Biden playbook in Brazil. Bolsonaro had a big lead in the first round and was the clear favourite. But communists don’t give up power once they get it,” Trump said

    US President Donald Trump cast doubt on Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s re-election in Brazil and compared it with the 2020 US election, while most Latin American governments, including several right-wing allies of Washington, congratulated the Brazilian president. In Argentina, President Javier Milei remained silent.

  • Monday, October 26th 2026 - 13:05 UTC

    Milei stays silent on Lula’s victory as Kast and Peña congratulate him

    Neither the president nor Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno had issued a statement on the result, according to the Argentine press

    Argentine President Javier Milei had not congratulated Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on his re-election in Brazil by Monday, unlike other right-wing South American leaders such as Chile’s José Antonio Kast, Paraguay’s Santiago Peña and Bolivia’s Rodrigo Paz. Milei, who publicly backed Senator Flávio Bolsonaro during the campaign, met his cabinet at the Casa Rosada first thing in the morning.

  • Monday, October 26th 2026 - 09:01 UTC

    Lula wins Brazil’s presidency for a fourth time with 51.8% of the vote

    Lula is the first candidate to win the presidency after coming second in the first round since Brazil returned to direct presidential elections in 1989

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won Sunday’s presidential runoff with 51.78% of valid votes against 48.22% for Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, according to the Superior Electoral Court, with 99.97% of the vote counted. Lula, 80, will govern the country for a fourth time, from 2027 to 2030, after overturning his first-round deficit.

  • Sunday, October 25th 2026 - 07:02 UTC

    Brazil chooses between Lula and Bolsonaro in its tightest runoff in recent history

    Bolsonaro won the first round on October 4 with 47.03% of the vote against Lula’s 45.16%, a result that confounded the polls

    Nearly 160 million Brazilians are called to vote on Sunday in the presidential runoff, in which President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 80, seeks a fourth term against Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, 45, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro. The two arrive level: the latest Datafolha poll gives each 50% of valid votes.

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