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Brazil runoff live updates: polls set to close as Flávio Bolsonaro narrowly leads Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in race for presidency
Brazil runoff live updates: voting time extended as Bolsonaro narrowly leads Lula in race for presidency
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The local electoral court ordered the immediate restoration of 100% of the bus fleet and ordered the arrest of the municipal transport secretary, Pablo Souza, on suspicion of an electoral offence and disobeying court orders. The arrest warrant could not be carried out, however, because he is in Par…
President Lula had sought the voting time extension on the grounds that, in cities across nine Brazilian states, voters were being prevented from casting their ballots because local authorities aligned with Flávio Bolsonaro were failing to provide the free public transport required by law on electi…
Voting time extended for an additional two hours
Scratch that. Brazilian Supreme Court justice Cristiano Zanin has just ordered voting in the country’s presidential runoff on Sunday to be extended by two hours, granting a request from president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s campaign. Polls were initially set to close at 5pm Brasilia tim…
Polls close in Brazil runoff election
As the clock strikes 5pm in Brazil’s capital Brasilia, polls have officially closed, though it is unclear whether either candidate’s request for voting hours to be extended in some cities will be granted.
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With only a few minutes left before poll closing time, both presidential candidates are asking Brazil’s electoral court to extend voting hours in some cities. The request from president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva came after issues in nine states with buses that provide transportation to polls. Flávi…
Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said that many people had been “barred from voting” after buses were taken out of circulation in Sao Paulo and several other cities. “We are asking the Supreme Court to extend the electoral process so that those who were effectively barred from voting,…
To Flávio Bolsonaro and his publicists, it must have seemed an ingenious idea that would expose his rival’s supposed crookedness on the eve of Brazil’s presidential election. But the far-right politician’s decision to attend a primetime television debate against his leftwing opponent, Luiz Inácio L…
Exclusive: Ex-Lula environmental official warns of Amazon destruction if Flávio Bolsonaro wins presidency
The former Brazilian environment minister Marina Silva has said that if Flávio Bolsonaro becomes president he will seek to finish the “perverse project” of rampant rainforest destruction initiated by his jailed far-right father. The Amazon was thrown into chaos during Jair Bolsonaro’s 2019-2022 pre…
A scandal engulfing Brazil’s top court could return the Bolsonaros to power
Thundering to a crowd of thousands of far-right supporters in São Paulo on 7 September, Brazil’s Independence Day, the senator Flávio Bolsonaro focused less on his opponent in the presidential election, the leftist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, than on someone who is not running at all. “Who…
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva v Flávio Bolsonaro: Brazil presidential runoff to decide direction of nation
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the Brazilian presidential runoff. Leftwing president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and senator Flávio Bolsonaro faced a second round of voting after neither secured more than 50 per cent of the vote in the first round. Bolsonaro, the eldest son of disgraced ex…
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