#BRAZIL: Former Pres. Hopes To Run Again In 2026

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Brazil's former president is hoping to make a comeback in the 2026 presidential election, if he can overcome the significant hurdle of being banned from running until 2030, that is.

Jair Bolsonaro's Liberal Party is banking on Congress passing a constitutional amendment that would overturn the court order banning him from running for office until 2030.

"Bolsonaro's charisma is amazing. People turn out in droves. Some cry when he appears in public," he said in an interview.

Brazil's electoral authority declared Bolsonaro ineligible to seek office again for eight years due to his baseless attacks on the country's electronic voting system. He is also under investigation for allegedly plotting a coup after he lost the 2022 election to leftist President Luis Inacio Lula de Silva, which he denies.

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#BRAZIL: Court Bars Frmr. Pres. Jair Balsonaro From Running Again in 2026, Backs Wife's Candidacy

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Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's hopes of reclaiming the presidency in 2026 may be over. But that doesn't mean there won't be a Bolsonaro running in three years' time.

Brazil's federal electoral court (TSE) on Friday froze Bolsonaro's political career, barring the fiery nationalist from public office until 2030 for spreading baseless claims about the country's voting system in last year's election.

The ruling represents a devastating setback for the 68-year-old career politician who was until recently Brazil's most powerful man.

But it may not spell the end for the Bolsonaro clan.

Speaking on Thursday shortly after landing in Rio de Janeiro, where he was greeted with shouts of "criminal" and "coup-monger," Bolsonaro backed his wife Michelle for president in 2026.

"Of course, I would support a Michelle candidacy," he said.

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#BRAZIL: Supreme Court To Investigate Ex-Pres. Bolsonaro's Role In Violent "Capitol Riot"

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Brazil’s Supreme Court said it will investigate former president Jair Bolsonaro for inspiring the far-right mob that invaded and ransacked the country’s Congress, Supreme Court and presidential offices this week, a swift escalation in the probe that shows the former leader could soon face legal consequences for an extremist movement that he helped build.

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#BRAZIL: As Leftist Lula Sworn In As President, Bolsonaro Boycotts, flees to Florida

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President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is expected, took the reins of the Brazilian government Sunday in an elaborate inauguration, complete with a motorcade, music festival and hundreds of thousands of supporters filling the central esplanade of Brasília, the nation’s capital.

But one key person was missing: the departing president, Jair Bolsonaro.

Without him, there was no ceremonial passing of the presidential sash ,  an important symbol of the peaceful transition of power in a nation where many people still recall the 21-year military dictatorship that ended in 1985.

Instead, Bolsonaro woke up Sunday 6,000 miles away, in a rented house owned by a professional mixed-martial-arts fighter a few miles from Disney World. Facing various investigations from his time in his office, Bolsonaro flew to Orlando on Friday night and plans to stay in Florida for at least a month.

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#BRAZIL: Leftist Lula Defeats Incumbent Bolsonaro

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Brazil’s incumbent president, Jair Bolsonaro, has fallen silent after his election defeat to his leftist rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

A stream of world leaders have stepped forward to recognize Lula’s stunning political comeback, including the US president, Joe Biden, the UK prime minister, Rishi Sunak, the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, and China’s Communist party chief, Xi Jinping.

Leftist media throughout the world reveled in the victory of the former president who had been jailed at one point, and spread the theory that Bolsonaro would actively contest the defeat.

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#BRAZIL: Bolsonaro Defies Polls, Forces Runoff With Leftist Lula

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Former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (known as "Lula") may have come out ahead with 48.4 percent of the vote in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election on Sunday, but the winner of the night might still be incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. With 43.2 percent of the ballot, the far-right leader comfortably beat pre-election polls and is now on course to face off with his leftist rival in a nail-biting run-off that few observers saw coming.

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BREAKING: Brazilian Pres. Bolsonaro In Hospital For Possible Intestinal Blockage

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Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has been rushed to hospital with an intestinal blockage after feeling unwell while on vacation.

The president posted a photo from his hospital bed on Twitter and his new Gettr account, saying doctors had inserted a nasogastric tube and were evaluating potential surgery.

Doctors said his condition was stable.

Mr Bolsonaro, 66, has been admitted to hospital several times since being stabbed in the abdomen during his 2018 presidential campaign.

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#BRAZIL: YouTube Removes 15 Videos Of Pres. Bolsonaro

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YouTube has removed videos posted by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for violating its content policies, in the strongest measure yet that tech giants in the social media–loving country have taken toward censoring the president. 

YouTube has said that if Bolsonaro breaks the video-sharing service’s rules again, his channel may be suspended for a week and, in case of recurrence, he should be permanently banned.

The video platform told the outspoken leader last week that 15 of his videos had been removed from his channel for spreading COVID-19 misinformation - some of which promoted alleged coronavirus "cures" that critics say can sometimes cause collateral health damages like kidney failure.    

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#BRAZIL: Pres. Bolsonaro Says Covid-19 May Have Been "Biological Warfare" On The World

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Pres. Jair Bolsonaro says the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) may have been made in a laboratory to wage "biological warfare," in the latest comments likely to strain Brazil's relations with China.

"It's a new virus. Nobody knows whether it was born in a laboratory or because a human ate some animal they shouldn't have," said the South American nation's leader.

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#BRAZIL: Pres. Bolsonaro Launches New Political Party

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President Jair Bolsonaro has launched a new political party a day after leaving the right-wing Social Liberal Party (PSL).

His new party, Alliance For Brazil, will fight corruption and advance Christian values, he said. Bolsonaro left the PSL following a row with its founder over control of campaign funds. He wants PSL lawmakers and and senators to follow him out.

The PSL surged in popularity to become the second-largest in the Brazilian Congress after  Bolsonaro joined it last year for his presidential run. The new party must collect 500,000 signatures to appear on ballots in municipal elections next year.

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#EU: France, Ireland Threaten To Block EU/South American Trade Deal Over Rainforest Destruction

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Members of the European Parliament from France and Ireland are threatening to block a trade deal between the Europe and South America's trading blocs over rampant destruction of the rainforests in Brazil.

Environmentalists accuse Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro of cutting protection to the area deemed crucial to combating climate change. The rainforests are being clear cut for farming at a record pace, say environmentalists. NASA, however, has said that overall fire activity across the Amazon basin this year has been close to the average compared to the past 15 years.

For now,E officials are defending the deal, which has taken 20 years to hammer out with the Mercosur trading bloc, because they say it ties them into honoring the Paris Agreement's environmental rules.

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#BRAZIL: Pres. Bolsonaro Threatens Journalist With Jail After Online Paper Publishes Leaks

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Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, has threatened a U.S. journalist with jail for publishing damaging leaks about the country’s historic Car Wash anti-corruption investigation.

Bolsonaro made the threat against Intercept journalist Glenn Greenwald even as he acknowledged that a new measure by his government to facilitate the expulsion of foreigners from Brazil could not apply to the U.S. citizen because he has a Brazilian husband and children.

His threats have been condemned by Brazil's leading journalist organization as potentially stifling freedom of the press in the country

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#BRAZIL: Judge Gives President 15 Days To Apologize, Pay Fine, For 2014 Election "Rape" Taunt

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A judge has ruled that Pres. Jair Bolsonaro must publicly apologize and pay a fine for the "moral offense" of saying, during the 2014 campaign, that a legislator was "too ugly" to rape.

Judge Tatiana Dias da Silva Medina, of the 18th Civil Court of Brasília, set a deadline of 15 days for Bolsonaro to pay R$10,000 (US$2,486) for his comments against federal MP Maria do Rosário. The president will also have to apologize in a newspaper of wide circulation and on social networks.

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#BRAZIL: Top Election Court Says Google Rigged Search For Leftist Pres. Candidate

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The Supreme Electoral Tribunal, Brazil’s top election court, fined Fernando Haddad, Pres. Jair Bolsonaro’s leftist opponent, for having a contract with Google to manipulate search results during the election.

Haddad paid Google to highlight negative content and manipulated searches to point to a website with negative coverage of Bolsonaro.

Google wasn’t fined because they said that as soon as they were notified by the court of the irregularities, they dishonored the contract.

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#BRAZIL: Jair Bolsonaro Inaugurated As President; Takes Nation Away From Decades Of Left-Leaning Gov'ts

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Jair Bolsonaro was sworn in as Brazil's president today, ending 15 years of socialist-leaning governments that have been racked by corruption scandals and a faltering economy. Bolsonaro's campaign was highlighted by an attempted assassin who stabbed him in the chest, leaving him in the hospital for weeks. He won broad support from men, women, the old and the young.

Bolsonaro, using a provocative style that has been compared to Donald Trump's, has pledged to purge the country of corruption and crack down on crime. Brazil's once-promising economy, which averaged 4% GDP growth between 2004 and 2013, has been crippled by recession and corruption scandals at the highest levels of government. Four ex-presidents and numerous other politicians are under investigation or on trial.

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#BRAZIL: Gov't Of Newly-Elected Climate Skeptic Bolsonaro Won't Host World Climate Conference in 2019

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Brazil has withdrawn its offer to host the annual UN climate summit next year, citing budgetary constraints and the transition to a new government. The U-turn follows last month’s election of Jair Bolsonaro as president, ushering in an administration skeptical of globalism and man-made climate change.

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#BRAZIL: Rightist Jair Bolsonaro Elected President In Dramatic Election That Left Brazil Divided

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Jair Bolsonaro, a 63-year-old former paratrooper who built his campaign around pledges to crush corruption, crime and a Communist threat, secured 55.7% of the vote in Sunday's election.  He takes office in January.

He defeated Leftist candidate Fernando Haddad in a two-way run-off election. He rose to victory after being stabbed in the abdomen during a campaign rally, one of many dramatic moments of the campaign of the man many easily compare to Donald Trump.

Bolsonaro has made controversial statements including admiration of the countries dictatorship in the 80s and 90s, leading many to speculate that he would seek to reinstate a dictatorship. He is on record as saying he would pack his cabinet with military officers.

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#BRAZIL: Pres. Candidate Bolsonaro Wins Place In Oct. Run-Off

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Right-leaning presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro won the first round of the national election on Sunday by a margin of 17% but fell short of the 50% of valid votes needed to win outright, and avoid a run-off.
He will face the left-wing Workers' Party candidate, Fernando Haddad, in the second round on October 28. He said he would not turn into a "peace and love" candidate to win votes.

He has promised to appoint "many" military officers to his cabinet, which has stoked fear in some of the return to the military dictatorship of the 1980s. He is denied that this is his plan. His Social Liberal Party, which has just eight deputies in the 513-seat lower house, won 52 in Sunday's election.

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#BRAZIL BREAKING: Presidential Candidate Jair Bolsonaro Stabbed While Campaigning; Seriously Injured

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Jair Bolsonaro, the frontrunning candidate in next month's Brazilian presidential election, is in a serious condition in hospital after being stabbed while campaigning. Bolsonaro was taken to hospital in the town of Juiz de Fora, about 125 miles north of Rio de Janeiro, after he was stabbed by a man who rushed up to him while he was being carried through a crowd on the shoulders of a supporter. He was in a serious but stable condition after injuries to his abdomen, surgeons at the Santa Casa de Misericórdia hospital said.

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#BRAZIL: Presidential Candidate Promises To Fill Cabinet With "A Bunch Of" Military Personnel

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Shortly after announcing reserve general Hamilton Mourao as his vice-presidential candidate, Rio de Janeiro congressman and presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro said that if elected, his cabinet will be filled with "a bunch of" military personnel, noting that they were harder to corrupt. The right-leaning candidate admires Pres. Trump, and has come under fire for anti-gay and anti-woman comments during the campaign, along with his praise for the military government which ruled Brazil from 1964 through 1985.

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