Politicians must stop playing partisan games and restore faith in democracy by quickly accepting the results of free and fair elections.
Bolsonaro’s chief of staff said the president had authorised him to begin the transition process with representatives of leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
If its new president-elect keeps his promises to safeguard the rainforest,Brazil could have a major impact on the global fight against climate change.
Bolsonaro and his inner circle have faced investigations on accusations including the embezzlement of public funds and theft of staff wages.
It is a stunning return to power for Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva whose 2018 imprisonment over a corruption scandal sidelined him from that year’s election.
The survival of Brazil’s right-wing president sets the stage for the most important vote in decades for Latin America’s largest nation.
All major polls have the former president Lula up by at least 8 percentage points,though some indicate his lead is much wider.
Brazil,the seventh most populous nation,goes to the polls this weekend. The result will have enormous implications for the world far beyond its borders.
The devastation generally caused by farmers lighting fires to clear land in drier months is more widespread than the blazes that set off global outrage in 2019.
A life-changing series of events kicked off when a man calling himself “Fernando” with a Colombian accent proposed making a huge payment to the remote Indigenous community.
The heart of the man who declared the Portuguese colony’s independence 200 years ago has been kept in an urn with formaldehyde in Portugal since his death.