Far right on the march and Lula’s failures: key drivers of Flávio Bolsonaro’s Brazil surge - The Guardian

Brazil’s presidential race will go to a second round after the far-right candidate, Flávio Bolsonaro, beat the incumbent leftwing president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, but failed to secure the outright majority he needed to avoid a runoff. With 99.9% of votes counted, the 45-year-old son of the disgraced former president, Jair Bolsonaro, had won 47%, meaning he will now face a 25 October showdown with his 80-year-old rival. Lula received 45.1%. Bolsonaro received 56.1m votes to Lula’s 53.8m. Bolsonaro will go into the second round as strong favourite and is likely to be boosted by the migration of votes from the election’s other rightwing candidates, who included Ronaldo Caiado, who secured 2.1%, and Renan Santos, who won 2.2%. Brazil’s far-right put in an even stronger than expected showing, with a succession of Bolsonarista politicians winning congressional or gubernatorial races. They included Jair Bolsonaro’s second son, Carlos Bolsonaro, and his wife, Michelle Bolsonaro, who both won seats in the senate. Bolsonaro’s youngest son, Jair Renan, was elected to the lower house of congress.

A new report by the Sport & Rights Alliance and Football Supporters Europe finds FIFA put revenue ahead of human rights at the 2026 World Cup. The Sport & Rights Alliance and Football Supporters Europe have published a 50-page report, “Profit Over People: The 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup”, assessing the tournament hosted across Canada, Mexico and the United States. It concludes that FIFA’s leadership did not put its own human rights commitments into practice, and that the drive for record revenue came at the expense of fairness and equality. The 2026 edition was the first men’s World Cup held under FIFA’s 2017 Human Rights Policy, with human rights criteria built into the bidding process and a dedicated human rights framework for the 16 host cities. What the report foundFans priced and locked out: record ticket prices, costly visas, a lack of affordable transport between host cities and US travel restrictions on more than 39 countries excluded many supporters, particularly those on low incomes, from the Global South or with disabilities.

Argentina's President Javier Milei and Eduardo Bolsonaro at the Hispanic Heritage Gala in Washington, DC. Alex Wroblewski /AFP/Getty Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily.

The messages, reported by a Brazilian daily, say the platform recommended Bolsonaro’s profile and his WhatsApp channel. Employees at Meta have acknowledged in internal communications that the Instagram accounts of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were negatively affected by restrictions during the country’s election, media reports say. The messages, reported on Friday by Brazilian daily Folha de S Paulo, also acknowledged the platform recommended the profile of Lula challenger Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, as well as his WhatsApp channel. Folha, the Sao Paulo-based paper, cited messages it had reviewed. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4US records 4,410 measles cases as outbreak growslist 2 of 4How Iran messaging highlights cost of war ahead of US midterm electionslist 3 of 4White House press secretary Katie Zacharia fired after five days on the joblist 4 of 4AOC transfers $1m to Michigan candidate El-Sayed in progressive pushend of listMeta told the Reuters news agency that the technical issues cited in the report were already public and the conversations it referenced related solely to the severity of the issues, not political interference.

Israeli settlers have attacked European diplomats, including a French mayor, near the Palestinian village of Taybeh in the occupied West Bank. The delegation was visiting Palestinian olive harvesters on Saturday when the Israeli attackers confronted the group. The attack comes a day after settlers assaulted a US journalist north of Ramallah. In Saturday’s incident, the settlers targeted Belgium’s consul general, French and Polish diplomats and Catholic representatives, Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot said. “A French mayor was assaulted and a Belgian vehicle damaged,” Prevot said, linking the attack to what he called Israel’s “illegal settlement policy” and pledging to push for further European Union sanctions. French mayor Bernard Baudoux, who was assaulted, told the AFP news agency that the violence suggests that “there is a tolerance on the part of the Israeli government” towards settler violence. Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh, reporting from Ramallah, said the settlers surrounded the diplomats’ vehicles, pelted them with stones and smashed their windows.

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