Brazilian socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in an apparent gaffe, said in Sunday’s heated presidential debate that Brazil will be “finished” if he is reelected for a fourth term in the upcoming runoff election.
\n\nThe Brazilian president made the bizarre comment in his closing remarks in Sunday’s debate between himself and conservative Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, the front-running candidate in the October 25 presidential runoff election.
\n\n“And in this fourth term, people will say: Brazil is finished. And will be a great country, a developed country, a country that will stop being a country that, you know, does small things,” Lula said in his closing remarks before he was interrupted by a debate presenter who told him he ran out of time.
\n\nSunday’s broadcast, hosted by TV Bandeirantes a week before the election, marked the first time that Lula and Bolsonaro faced each other in a debate during the entirety of Brazil’s 2026 presidential election cycle. The incumbent socialist president and leader of the far-left Workers’ Party (PT) had repeatedly rejected participating in debates against Bolsonaro and other presidential candidates in the race — deeming such activities “fruitless.”
\n\nFlávio Bolsonaro’s victory in the first round of the Brazilian presidential…
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