Bolsonaro leads Brazil's presidential elections with more than 50% of votes counted

Flávio Bolsonaro surpasses Lula by almost 10 points, with more than 35% counted

The Superior Electoral Court has already scrutinized 36.6% of a total of 499,248 electoral sections.

Flavio Bolsonaro: 50.63% Lula: 41.23% Writer Augusto Cury: 2.95% Ronaldo Fallen: 2.39% Renan Santos: 2.30% Blank: 1.71% Void: 2.60%

The Country

Bolsonaro leads the results with 50.7%, with 31% scrutinized

Bolsonaro maintains an advantage of almost 10 percentage points over Lula. The Superior Electoral Court has already scrutinized 31.90% of the electoral sections. This corresponds to 159,242 of a total of 499,248 tables. None of the other candidates exceeds 3% of the votes.

Flavio Bolsonaro: 50.74% Lula: 41.14% Writer Augusto Cury: 2.94% Ronaldo Fallen: 2.38% Renan Santos: 2.28%

Lucas ReynosoBogotá (COLOMBIA)

Abelardo de la Espriella: “Today my heart is with Brazil, the real change is defeating the left”

The president of Colombia, Abelardo de la Espriella, has sent greetings to the far-right candidate Flávio Bolsonaro, as the scrutiny progresses. "Um big hug, friend," he wrote in Portuguese on his X account. "Today my heart is with Brazil, may God have mercy on our brother country as he did with Colombia. The real change is to defeat the left," he commented in Spanish. He concluded his message with his usual slogans: "Sign for the Homeland! Long live Christ the King!"

The Country

The percentage narrows, with almost 28% counted: Bolsonaro: 50.85%; Lula: 41.05%

Bolsonaro leads Lula by more than 9 percentage points, the narrowest percentage so far. The Superior Electoral Court has already scrutinized 27.88% of the electoral sections. This corresponds to 139,204 of a total of 499,248 tables.

Flavio Bolsonaro: 50.85% Lula: 41.05% Writer Augusto Cury: 2.94% Ronaldo Fallen: 2.37% Renan Santos: 2.28% Blank votes: 1.67% Null votes: 2.54%

The Country

Bolsonaro surpasses Lula with more than 20% scrutinized

The Superior Electoral Court has already scrutinized 22% of a total of 499,248 electoral sections.

Flavio Bolsonaro: 51.07% Lula: 40.82% Writer Augusto Cury: 2.94% Ronaldo Fallen: 2.38% Renan Santos: 2.27% Blank: 1.63% Null: 2.49%

The Country

Eduardo Bolsonaro: “They are setting the stage to ignore the election in case Flávio wins”

Eduardo Bolsonaro, who sounds like Minister of Foreign Affairs in case his brother wins the elections, has attacked the investigation by the English newspaper The Guardian into Donald Trump's alleged financing of the far-right candidate. “The narrative is preparing the ground so that, if Flávio Bolsonaro wins, the election can be annulled under the pretext of 'foreign interference',” he wrote in X, in response to a news story about the opening of an investigation by the Police last Thursday. He has also accused Lula of having received