Lula beats Bolsonaro in Brazil runoff: What does it mean for Donald Trump? • FRANCE 24 English

Law is not respected in Brazil, rules are changed at last minute and according to benefit whoever they want to. THREE electoral crimes happened: First - PT's labor unions shouldn't have put sticks on the bus ( they knew it, and it was probably orchestrated); Second - it wasn't up to supreme court justice - Zanin, former Lula's personal lawyer - to decide something that's in Electoral supreme court's competence; and Three - they shouldn't have put the opposing party's rep out of the counting room. It's wrong on multiple levels. Simple as that!

The expert is on the same level as the experts regarding allegedly non-existing side-effects of Covid vaccines.<br><br>All you have to ask yourself why asking voters for an ID is not allowed in California - or why the Dems blocked the Voter-ID law (Safe America Act) despite that 80% of US citizens saw this positive. Hypocrites.

Why is Lula’s last-minute win celebrated in Western media?<br>Because Brazil looks increasingly like Europe under the same management model.<br><br>A resource-rich country whose elites extract wealth and ship it outward in exchange for imports, while the domestic population deals with high crime, mediocre education, strained housing, and stagnant living standards. A political class that has already governed for multiple terms and still gets rewarded with another one. Institutions that protect the arrangement more effectively than they protect transparent elections or broad-based prosperity.<br><br>The celebration is not about Brazilian democracy or the Amazon. It is recognition of a familiar pattern: another society kept in a controlled, extractive equilibrium that serves the same global interests now managing decline in Europe. A fourth Lula term simply confirms the model still works.<br><br>The election itself fits the pattern. <br>Both sides requested some form of extension, but the decisive nationwide two-hour order came at the last minute from Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin, Lula’s former personal lawyer. Many machines had already closed and could not be reopened. <br><br>The clear shift in the lead appeared only after that irregular window. Brazil’s electronic system produces no individual paper ballot the voter can verify. Lula gained roughly 10.4 million votes between rounds while his opponent gained 3.7 million. In a system without a physical audit trail, that sequence is exactly what a serious challenge looks like.