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  • Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has won a record fourth term in office, defeating far-right challenger Flávio Bolsonaro by 4 million votes in a runoff election.

    cred 7.8[1]2026-10-26

  • Flávio Bolsonaro is the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who remains under house arrest for plotting a coup against Lula four years ago.

    cred 7.8[1]2026-10-26

  • Lula’s victory comes after weeks of student-led organizing and campaigning on his behalf.

    cred 7.8[1]2026-10-26

  • Flávio Bolsonaro is refusing to concede the election results.

    cred 7.8[1]2026-10-26

  • Lula’s victory was by more than 4 million votes, with a significant increase in voter turnout compared to the previous election.

    cred 7.8[1]2026-10-26

  • Flávio Bolsonaro had requested an extension of voting hours due to bad weather in some regions.

    cred 7.8[1]2026-10-26

  • Flávio Bolsonaro’s refusal to concede is seen as a continuation of his father’s pattern of not respecting election results.

    cred 7.8[1]2026-10-26

  • The Supreme Electoral Court in Brazil includes judges appointed by Jair Bolsonaro.

    cred 7.8[1]2026-10-26

  • Lula’s victory is seen as a significant shift against the rightward trend in Latin America.

    cred 7.8[1]2026-10-26

  • Brazil’s markets and currency plunged Monday after Lula’s reelection.

    cred 7.8[1]2026-10-26

  • Futures on the Bovespa index plummeted 14%, and the real fell 10%.

    cred 7.8[1]2026-10-26

  • Lula scored 51% of the vote to secure his fourth non-consecutive term.

    cred 7.8[1]2026-10-26

  • Brazil’s public debt has grown over 10% during Lula’s current term.

    cred 7.8[1]2026-10-26

  • Lula first took office in 2003 and was the first leftist leader elected since the fall of the country’s dictatorship.

    cred 7.8[1]2026-10-26

  • Shares in XP and a Brazilian beer company fell in early trading.

    cred 7.8[1]2026-10-26

  • Lula’s disapproval rating has remained high but he narrowly won with promises to keep interest rates low and preserve social programs.

    cred 7.8[1]2026-10-26

  • Lula’s victory is attributed to his political machine, including the use of WhatsApp for messaging and disinformation.

    cred 7.5[1]2026-10-26

  • The Supreme Court approved an unusual extension of voting hours, issued by Lula’s personal lawyer.

    cred 7.5[1]2026-10-26

  • Lula’s victory may lead to the appointment of four new judges on the Supreme Court.

    cred 7.5[1]2026-10-26

  • Lula da Silva was re-elected president of Brazil on Sunday night, defeating Flavio Bolsonaro by a 52-48% margin.

    cred 7.5[1]2026-10-26

  • Bolsonaro received 47% of the vote in the first round, compared to Lula’s 45%, requiring a runoff.

    cred 7.5[1]2026-10-26

  • Lula’s party and allies suffered a crushing defeat in the first round, with Bolsonaro’s party holding key states and majorities in Congress.

    cred 7.5[1]2026-10-26

  • Lula’s victory is the first time since Brazil’s re-democratization in 1985 that a candidate who won the first round did not win the runoff.

    cred 7.5[1]2026-10-26

  • Lula is the first president of Brazil to be re-elected four times.

    cred 7.5[1]2026-10-26

  • Lula’s party, P.T., will have governed Brazil for 22 of the last 28 years by 2030.

    cred 7.5[1]2026-10-26

  • Brazil’s Supreme Court has been politicized under Lula, with appointments of political allies and friends.

    cred 7.5[1]2026-10-26

  • Bolsonaro was barred from leaving Brazil due to an investigation into money laundering.

    cred 7.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Lula received 51.79% of the vote in Brazil's presidential runoff.

    cred 7.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Flavio Bolsonaro secured 48.21% of the vote.

    cred 7.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Trump called the election 'another rigged election'.

    cred 7.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Bolsonaro accused Lula's allies of foul play.

    cred 7.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Jair Bolsonaro is serving a 27-year prison sentence for plotting a coup.

    cred 7.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Lula was barred from running in 2018 due to corruption conviction, which was overturned in 2021.

    cred 7.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Trump urged Brazilian authorities to drop the case against Jair Bolsonaro.

    cred 7.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Brazilian police opened an inquiry into US interference but closed it due to insufficient evidence.

    cred 7.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Reuters reported two State Department officials pushed for sanctions against Lula.

    cred 7.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Minas Gerais flipped from Bolsonaro to Lula by a narrow margin.

    cred 6.8[1]2026-10-26

  • Heritage Foundation lists 557 proven voter fraud cases between 2016 and 2025

    cred 6.8[1]2026-10-26

  • Justice Department announced 48 indictments related to non-citizen voting

    cred 6.8[1]2026-10-26

  • Lula da Silva won Brazil's election by over 4 million votes

    cred 6.8[1]2026-10-26

  • Trump criticized Brazil's election as 'rigged' and 'corrupt'

    cred 6.8[1]2026-10-26

  • Trump offered $1 million for voter fraud reports leading to convictions

    cred 6.8[1]2026-10-26

  • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the presidential runoff with 51.8% to 48.2%.

    cred 6.8[1]2026-10-26

  • Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin ordered a two-hour voting extension.

    cred 6.8[1]2026-10-26

  • Bolsonaro’s campaign chief warned against a 'judicial coup.'

    cred 6.8[1]2026-10-26

  • Lula gained 10.4 million votes between rounds, while Bolsonaro gained 3.7 million.

    cred 6.8[1]2026-10-26

  • Bolsonaro’s Right-wing Liberal Party gained its biggest congressional bench in decades.

    cred 6.8[1]2026-10-26

  • Trump welcomed Bolsonaro to the White House and called him a 'smart young man'.

    cred 6.5[1]2026-10-26

  • Trump said the Brazilian election looked 'rigged' without evidence.

    cred 6.5[1]2026-10-26

  • Lula da Silva beat Bolsonaro in the Brazilian election.

    cred 6.5[1]2026-10-26

  • Bolsonaro initially refused to recognize Lula's victory.

    cred 6.5[1]2026-10-26

  • Bolsonaro said he was banned from leaving Brazil and served a notice to surrender his passports.

    cred 6.5[1]2026-10-26

  • Brazil’s Supreme Court extended voting by two hours due to concerns about bus shortages and heavy rain.

    cred 6.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Lula’s Workers’ Party flipped Minas Gerais, a swing of nearly 700,000 votes.

    cred 6.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Lula won the runoff election by more than 3.5 percentage points – more than 4 million votes.

    cred 6.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Lula was imprisoned on corruption charges in 2018, but the charges were later annulled.

    cred 6.0[1]2026-10-26

  • George Santos compared Lula to Nicolás Maduro.

    cred 6.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Lula will turn 81 on Oct. 27.

    cred 6.0[1]2026-10-26

  • The Trump administration interfered against Lula’s agenda.

    cred 6.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Steve Bannon suggested cutting off diplomatic relations with Brazil.

    cred 6.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Elon Musk and Kari Lake claimed without evidence that there was significant voting fraud.

    cred 6.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Lula da Silva won Brazil’s election by about 4 million votes, securing a fourth term.

    cred 6.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Lula’s Army WhatsApp channel grew from 50,000 to over 10 million subscribers.

    cred 6.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Flávio Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party controls 28 Senate seats and 121 in the lower house.

    cred 6.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Brazil’s fiscal deficit is close to 8% of GDP.

    cred 6.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Lula’s win means Jair Bolsonaro will not walk free from house arrest.

    cred 6.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Lula's campaign was a dead heat between leftist president and far-right senator

    cred 5.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeated Flávio Bolsonaro with 51.7% of the vote to 48.2%

    cred 5.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Lula secured a fourth term after losing the first round of the presidential election

    cred 5.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Flávio Bolsonaro called for the election to be annulled

    cred 5.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Lula's victory was after a vote extended by two hours on a judge’s order

    cred 5.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Lula increased Bolsa Família payments by 15%

    cred 5.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Lula accused Meta of favoring his far-right rival

    cred 5.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeated Flávio Bolsonaro in the Brazilian election

    cred 5.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Flávio Bolsonaro was the right-wing candidate preferred by many investors

    cred 5.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Nur Cristiani is head of Latin America investment strategy at JPMorgan Private Bank

    cred 5.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Nur Cristiani spoke on Bloomberg Surveillance

    cred 5.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the Brazilian presidential election.

    cred 5.0[1]2026-10-26

  • The Trump administration was working to undermine Lula and support a far-right government in Brazil.

    cred 5.0[1]2026-10-26

  • Reuters reported the US administration was trying to bring Jair Bolsonaro back to power.

    cred 5.0[1]2026-10-26

Quotes

  • “The amount of organizing, the amount of marches and rallies, campaigning, pamphlets that we’ve seen the last three weeks has been something that I have never seen in my entire life, ever, covering elections for decades in so many different countries. It is absolutely unprecedented.”— Michael Fox [1]
  • “I am going to use my time, because he said something extremely stupid, and I am not going to let that go. He called me 'nine fingers.' I want him to understand something. There is someone here in this audience who knows what the world of work is like. That person is me.”— Lula [1]
  • “What happened today was not normal. It was downright unacceptable. A Supreme Court justice, for the first time in history, a former lawyer for Lula, with a simple stroke of the pen at the request of a former partner, changed the rules of the game in the middle of the match.”— Flávio Bolsonaro [1]
  • “I’m not running Brazil. I’m running the U.S. I like Lula. I get along with him very well.”— Donald Trump [1]
  • “It looked terrible to me. I didn’t take sides, but it looked like another rigged election, frankly.”— Donald Trump [1]
  • “The extension given was very strange.”— Donald Trump [1]
  • “looked so corrupt, so terrible”— Trump [1]
  • “Bolsonaro blasted the ruling as changing the rules 'in the middle of the game' and said it created a total breach of equality between voters in different cities and states.”— Bolsonaro [1]
  • “His campaign chief, Sen. Rogério Marinho, went further, warning against a 'judicial coup.'”— Sen. Rogério Marinho [1]
  • “We give you, that person, a million dollars”— Trump [1]
  • “Anybody reporting Voter Fraud in the past Elections, or the upcoming 2026 Midterm Election, will be paid $1,000,000 upon the arrest and conviction of those that created the Fraud!”— Trump [1]
  • “The Brazilian election over the weekend looked 'rigged,' without providing evidence”— Donald Trump [1]
  • “I didn't take sides”— Donald Trump [1]
  • “Elections have to be indisputable, and it looked very bad to me”— Donald Trump [1]
  • “It looked like another rigged election, frankly.”— Donald Trump [1]
  • “Brazil must be liberated.”— Alex Jones [1]
  • “Fuck Lula it’s time we give him the Maduro treatment!”— George Santos [1]
  • “I want to thank the Brazilian people for the generosity they have shown me for so long. I want to thank the young people who took to the streets to defend democracy, and the elderly who went out to vote”— Lula [1]
  • “The whole world has already reacted. The US cannot oppose the election result.”— former Lula adviser [1]
  • “We overcame interference from abroad, from the digital platforms”— Lula [1]
  • “This election is a defeat for denialism and lies”— Lula [1]
  • “âit looked like another rigged election.â”— President Donald Trump [1]