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Some 160 million Brazilian voters go to the polls on Sunday 4 October to choose between left-wing President Lula, 80 years old – who is running for a fourth and final non-consecutive term – and his far-right rival, Flavio Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro.
Voters began to go to the polls on Sunday for the first round of the presidential election in Brazil. Left-wing president Lula said after voting that the choice was between democracy and "barbarism". His conservative rival said he wanted to "free the Brazilian people". The two candidates are in a row in the last polls.
Brazilians vote on Sunday for the first round of the presidential election. Left-wing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 80, is running for a fourth non-consecutive term. His main opponent is the extreme right-wing candidate Flavio Bolsonaro, 45, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro. President Lula relies in particular on the support of the new middle class, but this is not guaranteed. Report by Valeria Saccone, with the story of Antoine Fenaux.
Brazilians vote on Sunday for the first round of the presidential election. Left-wing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 80, is running for a fourth non-consecutive term. His main opponent is the extreme right-wing candidate Flavio Bolsonaro, 45, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro.
This weekend, Brazilians vote in the first round of the presidential election, in a duel between Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro. The last pre-election debate was finally cancelled. Lula had announced her absence, officially retained by another commitment. Flávio Bolsonaro refused to debate without his main opponent. A confrontation that was to be the last major television battle before the vote. The details of David Dellos, an international columnist in France 24.
Eight months before the French presidential election to be held on 18 April and 2 May 2027, the candidate of the National Rally still largely dominates opinion polls. Marine Le Pen will win in the second round whatever his opponent.
The primary of the social democratic space really starts Wednesday 23 September in the evening with the first television debate bringing together the five candidates, but without Philippe Brun, the justice having rejected in the morning his request for reinstatement. The details of Flore Simon, political columnist in France 24.
The first contender at the Élysée to have made a pregnant campaign, Marine Tondelier, announced Wednesday that he had given birth to a boy named Leon. The leader of the Greens had said in recent weeks that even in the presidential campaign, this baby would be her priority, while stressing that she did not consider "for four months" on leave.
In Brazil, the President, to be held on 4 October, will oppose outgoing President Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro, the eldest son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is serving a 27-year prison sentence for attempted coup d'état. The polls draw a second tight turn between the two men. Another issue of the campaign is American interference. Lula intends to ask Donald Trump not to interfere with the Brazilian election, while Washington has imposed new surcharges on the country.
Most of the presidential candidates for next Spring responded to the French President's call for a crisis meeting around the "rapid deterioration" of the geopolitical situation and the prices of fuel that are breaking records. An energy G7 will soon be organized by Emmanuel Macron, who also expressed his fears about Russian hybrid attacks. The details of Flore Simon, political columnist in France 24.
Eric Zemmour, president of the far right party Reconquest!, confirmed on Thursday on BFMTV that he would be a good candidate for the French presidential election of 2027. He finished fourth in the first round of the 2022 election, with 7.07 per cent of the vote.
