Brazil Presidential Vote Pits Trump Ally Against Lula, Who Is Seeking 4th Nonconsecutive Term – WTOP News
Polls show Lula leading but short of a majority, while prediction markets favor Flávio Bolsonaro and a runoff remains likely.
- On Sunday, roughly 159 million Brazilians vote in a tight presidential election pitting incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva against Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, a close ally of President Donald Trump.
- Voters will also select 513 Chamber of Deputies members and 54 senators; to win outright, a candidate must secure over 50 percent of valid votes or face an October 25 runoff.
- Datafolha's latest survey Thursday showed Lula with 48 percent to Bolsonaro's 45 percent in a runoff, a technical tie; prediction markets favor Bolsonaro, while Jair Bolsonaro remains imprisoned on a 27-year sentence.
- Security dominates voter concerns, Gimena Sánchez, director for the Andes at the Washington Office on Latin America, told Newsweek, while U.S. pressure campaigns throughout the past year have strained bilateral relations.
- Washington seeks to restrict China's expansion in Brazil, though analysts suggest such efforts face significant hurdles as the election serves as a pivotal test for the U.S. regional security coalition.
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Birači u duboko polariziranome Brazilu u nedjelju izlaze na izbore za novoga predsjednika na kojima su glavni kandidati sadašnji predsjednik, ljevičar Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and desničarski senator Flávio Bolsonaro, koji su izzdrowieni u uskoj utrci. Right […] Objava Izbori u Brazilu: Lula i Flávio Bolsonaro u izzdrowiečenoj utrci za predsjednika pojavila se prvi puta na Novi list.
There is likely to be a close race at the elections in Brazil. Officials Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro are in polls ahead. Much points to a run-off.
Late Bolsonaro Surge Could Pull Brazil Back into Trump’s Latin America
Brazilians began voting on Sunday with Flávio Bolsonaro having transformed what once looked like a comfortable Lula lead into a statistical tie, while Polymarket gives the conservative challenger a clear advantage. A Bolsonaro victory would bring Latin America’s largest country into a broader regional rightward shift increasingly aligned with Donald Trump’s United States.
Brazilians go to the polls on Sunday to choose between left-wing president Lula and his far-right rival Flavio Bolsonaro – the son of former president Jair Bolsonaro – a choice of society in a polarised country. Analysis by Pascal Drouhaut, geopolitologist and specialist of Latin America, is the guest of the French branch 24 on Sunday 4 October.
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