Brazil's Right-Wing Party Nominates Bolsonaro Son to Battle Lula
Flávio Bolsonaro enters the race with fundraising questions and weak centrist support as Lula’s party prepares to confirm its reelection bid.
- On Saturday, Brazil's Liberal Party formally nominated 45-year-old Senator Flavio Bolsonaro as its candidate for the October presidential election, positioning him to challenge incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
- Flavio told supporters at a São Paulo convention, "Bolsonaro's blood flows here," praising his father, who is serving a 27-year sentence for plotting a coup after his 2022 election loss.
- Scandals have plagued the campaign, including a leaked audio recording regarding film financing and a public feud with stepmother Michelle Bolsonaro, who claimed he "disrespected me and mistreated me."
- Two new rounds of tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump's administration this month have compounded campaign difficulties, drawing scrutiny over foreign policy alignment with the United States.
- Pollster Datafolha reported Friday that incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva leads with 48 percent of the vote to Flavio's 43 percent, while the senator struggles to secure centrist alliances.
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Three months after the presidential elections of October 2026, Brazil is going through a more polarized electoral campaign than the recent ones. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva seeks re-election in front of Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (Liberal Party, or PL), his father’s political heir, former President Jair Bolsonaro, condemned and disqualified. The scenario has been altered by corruption scandals, family divisions in the opposition and a grow…
According to experts, he is not supported by nearly as many people as his father was, and what is expected of him is mostly the cohesion of the hard core of the right.
His father is the right-wing ex-state leader Jair Bolsonaro and is under house arrest. Now, son Flávio Bolsonaro wants to challenge head of state Lula in Brazil's presidential election.
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lrytas.ltFlavio Bolsonaro, the son of former far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, has been officially declared a candidate in October's presidential election. The senator was nominated on Saturday at a convention of his right-wing Liberal Party in Sao Paulo to challenge the country's leftist incumbent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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