Time of Scandals: Brazil Goes to Elections with Sex Scandal as Backdrop
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Controversy, corruption cases, a heated sex scandal at the top of Brazilian politics and a struggling economy: there's a lot at stake for Brazilians when they go to the polls.
This time, the ex-union leader fights against Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of Jair Bolsonaro, whom Lula beat four years ago. Corruption scandals hit both candidates.
Presidential elections are being held in South America's largest country, Brazil. Once again, an extremely close result is expected. The post Corruption allegations, bank closures, constitutional crisis accompany the election campaigns of President Lula and Bolsonaro Jr. in Brazil first appeared on 24.hu.
The presidential election comes through investigations that reach politicians, businessmen and institutions such as the Supreme Court of Justice. The Banco Master case, coupled with the expansion of the First Command of Capital and the Vermelho Command show a problem that exceeds the electoral dispute between Lula and the Bolanarismo: how to control networks of money and influence than the State and the economy. “Brazil is going through somethin…
In the run-up to the first round of the presidential election on Sunday, October 4, 2026, the candidate's programs disappeared from the campaign. outgoing President Lula and his main opponent Flavio Bolsonaro must defend themselves against accusations related to a bank scandal of a size rarely seen in Brazil.
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