10/22/2026
Brazil votes Sunday in a presidential run-off pitting veteran leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva against right-wing senator Flávio Bolsonaro, son of the jailed former president Jair Bolsonaro. Lula lost the first round on 4 October but has surged in the polls, with surveys now putting the two neck and neck. A Bolsonaro win would pull Latin America's largest economy into alignment with the Trump administration, raising the stakes across the hemisphere.