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Flavio Bolsonaro Lula Finger Missing Accident Work Debate Tv Brazil Elections 2026

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Flávio Bolsonaro makes fun of Lula for his lost finger in an accident at work, but the Brazilian president reacts and asks him to apologize on live television. During the last debate before the ballot, the son of former president Jair attacks the rival: "Come with one hand and remove with nine fingers." Lula remembers having lost his left pinky in 1964, at 17, while working at night in a factory in São Paulo: "If there is anyone who knows what i…

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Flávio Bolsonaro makes fun of Lula for his lost finger in an accident at work, but the Brazilian president reacts and asks him to apologize on live television. During the last debate before the ballot, the son of former president Jair attacks the rival: "Come with one hand and remove with nine fingers." Lula remembers having lost his left pinky in 1964, at 17, while working at night in a factory in São Paulo: "If there is anyone who knows what i…

·Turin, Italy
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Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL), a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, referred to the loss of the minimum finger of the left hand of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) during the debate on TV Globo, on Friday (23). In criticizing the government's tax policy, during a discussion on the zero-fare proposal in public transport, Flávio said that the petist "takes a hand and takes the nine fingers." The senator also said that he was not…

·Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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It took very badly for Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) the capacitist attack he made against President Lula (PT) during the debate of TV Globo, on Friday night (23). The senator used the expression ☆nine fingers to ironize and mock the physical disability of the opponent, who lost the minimum finger of the left hand in an accident [...]

Minimal finger loss occurred in 1964, when the president worked as a mechanical faucet in Metallurgical Independence. Read on Power360.

A historical fact of the life of President Lula (PT) came to light during the debate between the candidates for the Presidency of the Republic, carried out by TV Globo, on Friday, 23: the loss of his minimum finger of the left hand.In a discussion about the purchasing power of the workers, the senator and also postulant to the Palace of the Planalto, Flávio Bolsonaro (PL), said that Lula gives with one hand and takes with the 9 fingers the minim…

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Globo broke the news in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Saturday, October 24, 2026.
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