{"id":1966,"date":"2026-10-05T22:31:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T22:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/?p=1966"},"modified":"2026-10-05T22:31:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T22:31:04","slug":"flavio-bolsonaro-leads-lula-in-brazils-closest-first-round-presidential-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/blog\/2026\/10\/05\/flavio-bolsonaro-leads-lula-in-brazils-closest-first-round-presidential-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro Leads Lula in Brazil\u2019s Closest First-Round Presidential Race"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro finished ahead of President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva in Brazil\u2019s first-round presidential election, according to official results reported by Brazilian media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fl\u00e1vio received 47.03% of valid votes, compared with 45.16% for Lula, a gap of 1.87 percentage points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brazilian media described the result as the closest first-round presidential race since the country\u2019s return to direct presidential elections in 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neither candidate secured more than half of the valid votes, sending the election to a runoff on October 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro and Lula will now compete directly for the presidency in the second round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro finished ahead of President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva in Brazil\u2019s first-round presidential election, according to official results reported by Brazilian media. Fl\u00e1vio received 47.03% of valid votes, compared with 45.16% for Lula, a gap of 1.87 percentage points. Brazilian media described the result as the closest first-round presidential race since the country\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[735,30,29],"tags":[737,776,775,774,738],"class_list":["post-1966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brazil","category-politics","category-world","tag-brazil","tag-elections-2026","tag-flavio-bolsonaro-2","tag-lula","tag-presidential-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1968,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions\/1968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}