Brazil’s Lula launches historic fourth term bid – but son of jailed Bolsonaro stands in his way

<p>President, 80, vows to keep far-right from power as Flávio Bolsonaro tells supporters he will ‘fight this system’</p><p>Brazil’s leftwing president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has launched his campaign for a historic fourth term and vowed that as long as he lived he would not allow the “shameless” right to return to power.</p><p>Addressing a sea of supporters in São Bernardo do Campo, the industrial city where his political career began nearly half a century ago, the 80-year-old politician reminded voters of the chaos and violence that unfolded during <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/04/jair-bolsonaro-brazil-election-unfloppable-lost">the 2018-22 presidency of his far-right predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro</a>, whose son <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/03/flavio-is-surname-dropping-son-downplaying-bolsonaro-connection">Flávio Bolsonaro will face Lula in October’s presidential election</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/16/lula-brazil-president-fourth-term-jair-flavio-bolsonaro">Continue reading...</a>