https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/brazil-s-lula-and-bolsonaro-close-campaigns-ahead-of-critical-electionContinuously updated, source-cited coverage. https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/brazil-s-lula-and-bolsonaro-close-campaigns-ahead-of-critical-electionhttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/brazil-s-lula-and-bolsonaro-close-campaigns-ahead-of-critical-election#u105845Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:51:27 +0000Brazil is headed to a presidential runoff election after neither left-wing incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva nor right-wing challenger Flavio Bolsonaro secured an outright majority in the first round. Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, outperformed polling forecasts to take 47 percent of the vote against Lula's 45 percent. The neck-and-neck contest has set up an October 25 showdown. Wall Street and regional analysts are bracing for wildly different results that will test the growing pro-Trump Latin American bloc and impact Brazil's economy and for