Brazil Rallies For Candidates Before Runoff, Flávio Leads Polls as Lula Fights Abstention
BRASÍLIA — Flávio Bolsonaro enters the final two weeks of Brazil’s presidential runoff with a narrow lead over President Lula, after finishing first on October 4 with 47.03% of valid votes to Lula’s 45.15%.
Post-election polls from Datafolha and AtlasIntel put the Liberal Party candidate ahead by 4 to 5.4 points, near the edge of the margin of error.
Lula is betting on mobilizing roughly 30 million voters who stayed home, as seen at his Avenida Paulista rally in São Paulo on Sunday, while Bolsonaro builds a coalition with allies like Ronaldo Caiado and local officials in Lula’s backyard in the country’s northeast before the October 25 vote.
Uruguay Says Delcy Rodríguez is as “Illegitimate as Maduro”
MONTEVIDEO — Uruguay’s Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin said in an interview with Folha de S.Paulo that his country will not restore full diplomatic relations with Venezuela while Delcy Rodríguez is in power, calling her “as illegitimate as Maduro.”
He said relations would resume only after an election confirmed by an independent court, at which point Uruguay would establish ties with “the legitimate winner of a democratic election.”
The comments repeat the position Montevideo has held since the disputed July 2024 vote, even as Rodríguez promises elections without a date and the United States engages with her government.
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