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Thousands of Brazilians living in Ireland cast their vote for president

Queues snaked down the road from Dublin’s Croke Park from early on Sunday.

The Independent UK

Deeply divided, Brazilians abroad join long queues to vote in tense presidential runoff

Brazilian Ieda Ferreira woke up at the crack of dawn to join a long queue in Portugal's capital Lisbon, her home for the past five years, to vote in her country's presidential runoff. Brazil, she said, was more divided than ever.

Reuters

Brazil election - live: World leaders congratulate Lula as he pips Bolsonaro to become president

The final result of the election is expected in the next few hours

The Independent UK

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David Pratt: Future on the line as as Brazil heads to the polls

IT’S hard to over-emphasise just how much is at stake in Brazil’s presidential election runoff today. Not only will it determine the future of…

The National (Scotland)

Lula narrowly defeats Bolsonaro to win Brazil presidency again

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva narrowly defeated President Jair Bolsonaro in a runoff election on Sunday that marked a stunning comeback for the leftist former president and the end of Brazil's most right-wing government in decades.

Reuters

Brazil election: Fears Bolsonaro will refuse to accept defeat as bitter race with Lula goes down to wire

There are fears of widespread violence in aftermath of the vote if Bolsonaro does not accept the result

The Independent UK

Bolsonaro, Lula supporters watch Brazil’s final presidential debate with football fervour

As Brazil’s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro traded barbs with his leftist rival, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in the final debate ahead of Sunday’s presidential face-off, supporters of the two candidates gathered in their respective strongholds to watch the faceoff. The fiesty debate was as dramatic as a football match,…

France 24

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Brazil presidential contenders in final push before Sunday vote

With just one day before Brazilians decide their president for the next four years, the two remaining candidates are focusing last efforts in voter-packed areas in Brazil’s southeast.

Tribune News Service

Bolsonaro-Lula presidential race down to the wire in Brazil, polls show

Brazil's heated presidential race has tightened ahead of a Sunday vote, several opinion surveys showed on Saturday, with right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro eroding a slight advantage for leftist challenger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in most polls.

Reuters

Brazil election officials brace for tense Sunday vote as Bolsonaro cries foul

Brazil's electoral authorities are preparing for a competitive election on Sunday with a result that may be contested by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro if he loses to his leftist adversary, who has a narrow lead in recent opinion polls.

Reuters

Social media failing to keep up with Brazil electoral disinformation, rights groups say

Human rights groups and researchers have raised concerns in Brazil that social media platforms are failing to effectively police disinformation ahead of a highly polarized presidential vote on Sunday.

Reuters

Brazil's rural boomtowns ensure Bolsonarismo's future

The small city of Catanduva in the rural farm belt of Sao Paulo state has been ahead of the political curve in Brazil.

Reuters

Lula or Bolsonaro? Putin says he has good relations with both

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he had good relations with both Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Jair Bolsonaro, the two candidates in Sunday's runoff in the Brazilian presidential election.

Reuters

Brazil's Lula keeps lead in roughly stable race against Bolsonaro, two polls show

Brazil's leftist presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva maintains the lead over his far-right adversary President Jair Bolsonaro ahead of Sunday's runoff election, according to two polls on Thursday that showed the race is roughly stable.

Reuters

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Bolsonaro shores up evangelical support in tight Brazil election

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro heads into Sunday's election with strong support among evangelical Christians, a key demographic that his rival former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had been courting in a tight presidential race.

Reuters

Analysis-Brazil's Green New Deal: Lula promises environmental policy overhaul

Brazilian presidential frontrunner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is vowing an environmental overhaul of government policy on a scale rivaling the proposed U.S. Green New Deal, according to his senior advisers, campaign documents and Workers Party policy papers.

Reuters

Brazil's Bolsonaro to appeal to top court ahead of Sunday's election runoff

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro plans to appeal to the Supreme Court over a national electoral authority ruling that rejected his campaign's complaint about radio station ads, raising tensions just three days before a runoff vote that opinion polls predict he is likely to lose to his leftist adversary.

Reuters

Brazil's Lula widens lead slightly over Bolsonaro in two polls

Brazilian presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's lead over President Jair Bolsonaro has widened slightly to six percentage points less than a week ahead of a runoff vote, two polls showed on Wednesday.

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Explainer-What Brazil's election means for the Amazon rainforest

Brazil's presidential election on Sunday may determine the fate of the Amazon jungle, the world's largest rainforest, after deforestation soared in the past four years under President Jair Bolsonaro.

Reuters

Analysis-Bolsonaro's cash injection gains traction with poor Brazilians ahead of vote

A wave of new government spending by President Jair Bolsonaro may be giving him a boost in the final stretch of a close reelection campaign, opinion polling shows, in a dangerous precedent for electoral law, according to legal experts.

Reuters

Analysis-Police showdown with Bolsonaro ally amplifies Brazil election violence fears

A violent showdown between an ally of President Jair Bolsonaro and police over the weekend is stirring an already febrile election campaign in Brazil, as deep political polarization bubbles over just days before a tense runoff vote.

Reuters

Brazil's Lula leading Bolsonaro by 7 points ahead of runoff -poll

Brazil's leftist presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is leading President Jair Bolsonaro by 7 percentage points with less than one week to go until a runoff vote, according to a poll published on Monday.

Reuters

Fiscal discipline 'non-negotiable' if Lula wins Brazil election -running mate

Fiscal responsibility will not be negotiable if leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wins next Sunday's presidential runoff vote, Lula's running mate Geraldo Alckmin said on Monday.

Reuters

Brazilians honor coronavirus victims in Sao Paulo homage

Brazilians on Sunday paid tribute in Sao Paulo to friends and family members who died of the coronavirus by writing messages on a mural set up on a boulevard in honor of the 680,000 people Brazil lost to the pandemic.

Reuters

Brazil's top footballers lean toward Bolsonaro in polarized race

A few days before Brazil's first round of voting in this month's general election, a 13-second TikTok video electrified supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro: soccer star Neymar coming out in favor of his re-election bid.

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