Politics
Lula campaign seeks to disqualify Bolsonaro from Brazil's runoff
October 22, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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Lula's campaign has asked Brazil's top electoral court to exclude rival Flavio Bolsonaro from Sunday's runoff, a day after Bolsonaro's team filed a similar bid against Lula.
- Lula's campaign filed a petition Wednesday to exclude Flavio Bolsonaro from the presidential runoff, citing abuse of economic power and improper social media use.
- A day earlier, Bolsonaro's campaign petitioned to disqualify Lula, accusing him of misusing power through government WhatsApp posts during the campaign.
- Meta denied electoral bias on Friday, acknowledging it had mistakenly disabled some Lula campaign ads due to technical problems.
- Brazil's electoral court raised Meta's daily fine to 1 million reais after ruling the company failed to prove it applies equal rules to both candidates.

