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Brazilians vote Sunday in an election that could test Trump's push to reshape Latin America.
Polls show tight race between incumbent Lula and right-wing rival Flavio Bolsonaro amid concerns over crime and economy.
Awaiting state-level presidential results. Voters also choose 54 of the Senate’s 81 members, all 513 representatives of the lower house and a thousand of state and district lawmakers. The makeup of Congress will determine how much room the next president has to advance an agenda,
There are multiple names on the presidential ballot, but only two matter: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the 80-year-old incumbent known as Lula, and his right-wing challenger Flavio Bolsonaro, whose father Jair ruled Brazil from 2018 to 2022 but now languishes in prison.
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Flávio Bolsonaro inherited his father’s right-wing movement. Can he win Brazil’s presidency?
Flávio faces a task that even his father could not accomplish: defeating Brazil’s leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who, at nearly 80, is seeking a fourth and likely final term.
Brazilians are heading to the polls in what is set to be a decisive moment for Latin America’s largest nation, but the event has been clouded by accusations that the Trump Administration is attempting to overexert its influence.
Sunday’s poll pits the leftist incumbent Lula against the son of a former far-right president convicted of staging a coup
Brazil's most prominent televised presidential debate was canceled three days before one of the country's most polarized elections in recent history.