A PoderData/Aya poll showed incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with 49% of valid votes, compared with 51% for Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, a statistical tie within the poll’s 1.8 percentage-point margin of error. The presidential runoff will be held on Oct. 25.
For more than 20 years, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has reigned as Brazil’s most dominant political figure. The leftist leader has been elected to three terms as president and, at the age of 80, is vying for a fourth.
You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack . You can read a transcript here . Left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva finished behind far-right Flávio Bolsonaro in the first round of the Brazilian elections earlier this month…
Executives in Brazil’s financial circles are competing for meetings with Flávio Bolsonaro and his aides after a shockingly strong showing in the first-round presidential vote vaulted him to front-runner status.
Right-wing candidate Flávio Bolsonaro holds a slim lead over President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva less than two weeks before Brazil’s runoff election, a new poll showed.
On Oct. 25, the people of Latin America’s largest democracy and economy will vote in a presidential runoff. Neither the conservative candidate, Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro, nor the socialist incumbent, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (known as Lula), secured an outright majority in the first round of voting.
Brazil is facing hotly contested elections in less than two weeks. Students have hit the streets en masse in recent days. They’re organizing to reelect President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. They say if his adversary, the far-right Senator Flávio Bolsonaro wins, it could mean huge rollbacks at public …
