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Brazilian authorities order arrest of top officials over capital riots

Lula's inauguration on January 1 was "an extremely successful security operation" but on January 2 "Anderson Torres took over as Secretary of Security, dismissed the entire command and travelled

Brazil's ex-president Bolsonaro files petition challenging election results

After Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva narrowly won in Brazil's presidential elections last month, outgoing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has filed a petition to formally challenge the poll results

Brazil armed forces' report on presidential election finds no fraud

The defence ministry released a report Wednesday highlighting flaws in Brazil's electoral systems and proposing improvements, but there was nothing to substantiate claims of fraud from some of President Jair Bolsonaro's supporters protesting his Oct. 30 defeat. It was the first comment by the military on the runoff election, which has drawn protests nationwide even as the transition has begun for President-elect Luiz Incio Lula da Silva's inauguration Jan. 1. Thousands have been gathering outside military installations in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Brasilia and other cities calling for intervention by the armed forces to keep Bolsonaro in office. When the defence ministry announced this week that it would present its report on the election, some Bolsonaro supporters rejoiced, anticipating the imminent revelation of a smoking gun. That didn't happen. There is nothing astonishing in the document, Diego Aranha, an associate professor of systems security at Aarhus University in Denmar

Bolsonaro, Lula to face runoff vote in Brazil's presidential elections

Former President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva of the leftist Workers' Party got the most votes in Brazil's presidential election Sunday, but not enough to avoid a runoff vote against his far-right rival, incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. With 97% of the votes tallied, da Silva had 47.9% support and Bolsonaro 43.6%. Since neither candidate received more than 50% of the valid votes, which exclude spoiled and blank ballots, a second round vote between them will be scheduled for October 30. Brazil's election authority announced late Sunday that a second round was a mathematical certainty. The highly polarised election will determine whether the country returns a leftist to the helm of the world's fourth-largest democracy or keeps the far-right leader in office for another four years. Bolsonaro's administration has been marked by incendiary speech, his testing of democratic institutions, his widely criticised handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the worst deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in

Brazil's jailed ex-president Lula could be freed after Supreme Court ruling

That move will initially depend on a judge based in the southern city of Curitiba, where the former president is jailed.

Brazil's top court rules that ex-president Lula Silva can be jailed

With the habeas corpus denied, Lula can be arrested any time, which will prevent him from participating in the 2018 presidential elections