Son of Former Brazilian President Cheated Out of a Win Tops Election Results in Brazil, Garnering 47% of the Vote

It requires 50% to actually win the election outright, otherwise it goes to a two-person runoff.

He almost got 50%.

I bet he got well over 50% -- but the left cheats, subverts, and destroys everything, including democracy.

Conservative Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro won Sunday night's presidential election in Brazil, defeating incumbent socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva -- but did not pass the 50 percent threshold necessary to win the presidency outright, triggering a runoff election.

Brazilians took to the polls on Sunday for general elections for the presidency, local state leadership positions, and seats in the Brazilian Congress. Bolsonaro and Lula were among 13 candidates competing for the chief executive position, though polling prior to the election did not indicate that any of the other candidates were attracting any meaningful levels of support to vie for first place.

At press time, Brazil's electoral officials have counted 99.57 percent of the vote. Bolsonaro is in the lead with 47.12 percent support, or nearly 56 million votes, while President Lula obtained 45.05 percent of the vote, or about 53.5 million votes. The third-place candidate, self-help author Augusto Cury, obtained only 2.89 percent of the vote, or about 3.4 million votes.

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Brazilians will return to the polls for the runoff election on October 25.

Lula, 80, is running for a fourth term as president of Brazil, an especially notable feat given that he was convicted of misappropriating government funds while president following his second term and banned from running for office. He attempted to run for president from prison in 2018 but failed to make it to the ballot. The Brazilian top court, the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF), overturned the ban on public office and allowed him to run in 2022 against then-incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, narrowly defeating him.

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The two frontrunners arrived at the top of the polls following an arduous and typically chaotic presidential campaign season in Brazil that arguably began in late 2025, when Brazil's top court sentenced Lula's expected rival, former President Bolsonaro, to 27 years in prison on dubious "crimes against democracy" charges and banned him from running for public office for 35 years, or until he is 105 years old. The Bolsonaro family, with several members already in politics, mobilized rapidly to shift away from the original plan of patriarch Jair running against Lula. Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro announced in late December 2025 that he would challenge Lula, cementing support from potential rivals such as Sao Paulo Gov. Tarcísio de Freitas. Tarcísio was reelected on Sunday.

Meawhile, US special forces joined with Ecuadorian forces to raid homes controlled by the very violent Jalisco cartel, which surged into Ecuador from Mexico.

Battleswarm blog quotes Military.com:

Fifty U.S. troops assisted Ecuadorian officials in arresting more than 30 members of a Mexican drug cartel.

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and U.S. troops participated in an early-morning operation on Thursday to arrest members of a branch of Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), Ecuadoran Interior Minister John Reimberg wrote on X.

Battleswarm Blog adds:

CJNG is widely reported to be among the most lethal and brutal of all the Mexican drug cartels.

Below, Cappy Army discusses the move against the Mexican cartel in Ecuador. Cartel gunmen recently fired on US ships.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:30 PM

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