Politics
Flávio Bolsonaro leads Brazil's first round, forcing runoff with Lula
October 6, 2026 at 03:37 PM · Updated 10d ago
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AJAl Jazeera English
Why Flavio Bolsonaro outperformed the polls in Brazil’s election
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AJAl Jazeera Arabic
عودة آل بولسونارو.. ترمب يقترب من البرازيل والصين في الخلفية
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(opens the publisher’s site)Far-right candidate Flávio Bolsonaro topped Brazil's presidential first round, forcing an October 25 runoff with incumbent leftist President Lula da Silva.
- Bolsonaro's party made broad gains in Congress and state governments, electing four members of his family as lawmakers.
- Former President Jair Bolsonaro, sentenced to 27 years for conspiring to stage a coup, remains under house arrest.
- Trump posted "Voting in America is CORRUPT!!!", noting Brazil's 125 million voters received same-day results.
- Flávio Bolsonaro declared readiness to join the American-led "Shield of the Americas" alliance against cartels.
- Bolsonaro took about 47 percent of the first-round vote to Lula's 45 percent, reversing polls that had the president ahead by three points.
- The two candidates head to the October 25 runoff separated by roughly 2.2 million votes.
- Bolsonaro's Liberal Party also secured the largest bloc in the Senate after the first round.