

Speaking as a Brazilian who voted in Lula - not because I necessarily think he’s the best, just the least worse - this final term of his will most likely be his worst. The congress and senate that was elected this year is atrociously far-right, most from the same party as Flavio. Lula won’t be able to accomplish anything; at best he’ll be able to hold the status quo until 2030 - which is good considering with Flavio we’d very likely have loss of rights and setbacks - and hopefully by then we’ll have more reasonable candidates from the right, and maybe a better one than Lula in the left.





No, he was under investigation, and the investigation was actually happening before the election. After the election was over, one of the justices approved the request from the federal police to have his passport turned over, and the rest is history.