Incumbent socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s electoral campaign filed a request over the weekend seeking to ban conservative Senator Flávio Bolsonaro from running for public office in Brazil for eight years.
The request would effectively ban Flávio Bolsonaro from the October presidential election. A similar eight-year ban was imposed on Bolsonaro’s father, conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro, in 2023 before he was sentenced to 27 years in prison on “crimes against democracy” charges in 2025.
Lula and Bolsonaro are among the 13 candidates currently running for president in Brazil’s October 4 general elections. Should no…
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