Final results from Brazil’s Sunday general elections confirmed this week that right-wing parties will hold a majority in the Lower House that, together with the majority in the Senate, will grant them control of both chambers of Congress once they take office next year.
\n\nBrazilian conservative and right-wing parties, spearheaded by the Liberal Party (PL) led by Senator and presidential front-running candidate Flavio Bolsonaro, secured their best electoral performance in four decades during Sunday’s general elections. The results also automatically triggered an upcoming October 25 presidential runoff between Bolsonaro of the PL party and current incumbent socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the far-left Workers’ Party (PT).
\n\nLocal outlets reported that, collectively, PL and some 20 other right-wing parties secured 276 seats out of the available 513 seats — effectively forming a majority at the Chamber of Deputies once all elected lawmakers take office in February 2027.
\n\nOut of the total 513 seats, 121 will be occupied by the PL, a party that not only secured its position as the largest force in the Lower House, but saw its best electoral performance ever, going from 99 elected congressmen in 2022 to 121 on Sunday. Conversely, the Lula-led PT…
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