André Janones, the WhatsApp ‘General’ Who Turned the Brazil Election Around for Lula
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André Janones, the WhatsApp ‘general’ who turned the Brazil election around for Lula
The night Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won his fourth term, among veteran ministers and old and new allies of the Workers’ Party, there was a man who never left the president’s side and whom almost no one outside Brazil would recognize. He stood out for his big white smile and for being the only one wearing the national team’s yellow jersey. He was André Janones, a lawmaker turned general of a digital army without which Sunday’s historic comeback c…
Let us not simplify, it was not only André Janones who gave the victory to Lula, but without him the fourth term would not have been possible.
Sao Paulo. In his first speech after being re-elected president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sought the deputy, André Janones. «Our general», told him as a sign of gratitude for his key role on social networks to achieve a historic comeback this Sunday in front of Flávio Bolsonaro. Janones, who was wearing a T-shirt of [...] La entrada After victory, Lula thanks his digital “general” André Janones, in charge of breaking the fence in netw…
Lula da Silva celebrates in São Paulo his electoral victory and his fourth term as president of Brazil, on October 25, 2026. Photo: Natacha Pisarenko / AP-LaPresse. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has won the presidency of Brazil after waging an unprecedented electoral battle on two simultaneous fronts: in the political arena, against the onslaught of the Bolsonaro dynasty; and in the invisible terrain of digital platforms, against the logics, biases …
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