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Lula and Bolsonaros Mudslinging Heats up Ahead of Weekend Vote

Brazil's PresidentLuiz Inacio Lula da Silvaand his election rivalFlavio Bolsonaroare leaving no controversy unturned in their last-ditch efforts to discredit each other and win over voters ahead of Sunday's nail-biter election.A campaign dominated by scandals and insults has done little to ease the deep political polarisation inLatin America's biggest economy one of the last major leftist bastions in the region.

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The controversy over the alleged withdrawal of the title of patron saint from the country to Our Lady of Aparecida, the controversial funding for a film about Jair Bolsonaro, the investigations of course trading in influence against Lula’s eldest son and the denunciations of “electoral interference” against the US marked the campaign in the face of this Sunday’s first presidential round in Brazil. As in 2022, the scenario of polarization is repe…

·Las Condes, Chile
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BRAZIL goes to the polls tomorrow for a presidential election that will decide whether Latin America's largest country follows a regional trend toward conservatism or chooses its own path, Reuters reported.

·Zagreb, Croatia
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saarbruecker-zeitung.desaarbruecker-zeitung.de
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Lula wants to continue to rule, Flávio Bolsonaro will take over his father's legacy. Before the election on Sunday, several conflicts shape the huge country: it's about security, corruption and sovereignty.

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In the Brazilian elections of October 4, the incumbent left-wing president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is neck and neck with the radical right Flávio...

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Le Journal de QuebecLe Journal de Quebec
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Lula and Flavio Bolsonaro play for the whole before the first round of the presidential election in Brazil.

·Montreal, Canada
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Center

Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro come to the end of the campaign as the main protagonists of the presidential elections in Brazil. Corruption, which was already one of the sensitive issues for the electorate, is again gaining interest after the outbreak of a financial scandal with various ramifications and accusations that dotted the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro and Judge Alexandre de Moraes, a key figure of Brazilian justice and hab…

·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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LVZ - Leipziger Volkszeitung broke the news in Leipzig, Germany on Friday, October 2, 2026.
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