International Brazil Election 2026
Brazil’s most gender-balanced line on the ballot is the one no quota touches
Women are about 43 per cent of the candidacies registered for vice-governor in October’s election and about 16 per cent of those for governor. Neither office is covered by the candidacy quota that governs Brazil’s proportional races.
International Brazil Election 2026
Brazil’s electoral roll lists 297,977 voters aged 100 or over. The census found 37,814 centenarians
Nine states hold 93.6% of them, and in every one fewer than a quarter have ever been fingerprinted. Where rolls were cleaned between elections, the numbers collapsed by up to 86%.
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Brazil's top court bars Flávio Bolsonaro from visiting his jailed father
Justice Alexandre de Moraes barred Senator Flávio Bolsonaro — a leading presidential candidate — from visiting his father, ex-President Jair Bolsonaro, for 90 days, after Flávio read one of his letters on a livestream.
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