At 80, Lula runs for an unprecedented fourth term with the right's standard-bearer dogged by scandal and his father jailed
Jair Bolsonaro
Jailed and barred, Jair Bolsonaro hands the flag to Senator Flávio; an 80-year-old Lula seeks a fourth term with the race tied
Four years two months and ineligibility to 2038 for coercion — tried in absentia for seeking US sanctions on the court trying his father
The right's 2026 candidate confirms a recording asking ex-banker Daniel Vorcaro to release money for a biopic of his father, widening Lula's lead