Brazilian former president Michel Temer was arrested yesterday morning in São Paulo on suspicion of corruption. A number of his ministers were also arrested. Temer was from 2016 to 2018…
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Conservative populist Jair Bolsonaro has won the presidential elections in Brazil. That has been announced by the Brazilian electoral council. About 97 percent of the votes were counted, with 55 percent going to the former military, reports the BBC.
Some 147 million Brazilian voters may decide on Sunday who will lead the country in the coming years. The conservative populist Jair Bolsonaro takes the lead in the polls. His followers see him as an outsider who can go through a corrupt system with the broom.
He is already called 'legend' by his followers. The Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro is the towering favorite in the elections tomorrow. The extreme right-wing populist wants to tackle the wave of violence in the South American country very hard. And that gives him a lot of votes.
On his laptop, journalist Sérgio Lüdtke shows the video. 'Look, someone is showing a bottle with a teat in the shape of a penis.' A male voice tells that the bottle is part of a so-called 'homo package' intended to combat homophobia.
The Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro has not yet recovered sufficiently to campaign. His doctors said on Wednesday that Bolsonaro, who was stabbed last month, in December anyway under the knife must.
Brazilian footballer Ronaldo de Assis Moreira, better known as Ronaldinho, has rallied behind the right-wing presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro. Ronaldinho says in social media that he supports Bolsonaro for a better Brazil. I want peace, security and someone who gives us happiness. I have chosen to live in Brazil and want a better Brazil for everyone \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27 ;.
The stabbed Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro left the Einstein hospital in São Paulo after 23 days. That is what Brazilian media report. According to a report in the daily newspaper O Globo, the extreme right-wing ex-soldier wanted to fly to Río de Janeiro on Saturday, where he lives.
The Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro has undergone late surgery on Wednesday evening to restore stitches to his intestinal walls. That is what the Einstein Hospital in the Brazilian city of São Paulo has known.
The seriously injured Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro is increasing in popularity in opinion polls. In a poll published on Wednesday, 26 percent of respondents said they were going to vote for him in the presidential election in October.
Former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva gets out of the race for the presidency, reported sources around the candidate. For the elections of next month, his running-mate Fernando Hadad is now the most important candidate of the socialist PT.
Brazilian prosecutors are again prosecuting a prominent member of Workers' Party PT for corruption. This Fernando Haddad, the former mayor of Sao Paulo, is expected to become the presidential candidate of his party in the short term.
The former president of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva may not participate in the presidential elections in October. The electoral court in Brazil has decided to do so because of Lula's condemnation of corruption. The lawyers of Lula have already said they will appeal.
Former Brazilian President Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (72) has again been nominated by the Labor Party for the party during the presidential election. This is remarkable because Lula, as he is usually called, has been in jail since April this year.
A Brazilian federal judge, Rogério Favreto, has ordered that the former Brazilian president Luíz Inacio Lula da Silva be released. The leftist politician Lula da Silva has been detained in the city of Curituba since April, because he has been convicted for twelve years because of a corruption case called the triplex case. Lula accepted an apartment on the coast of the state of São Paulo as a gift from a construction company. The expensive apartment was actually a bribe from the company that wanted government assignments.
A Brazilian court sentenced the former businessman and billionaire Eike Batista to thirty years in prison for bribery. The former mining and oil magnate has, according to the court, the then governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Sergio Cabral, converted 15.5 million euro bribes paid.
The Brazilian president Michel Temer does not appear to be bombarding protests four months before the elections. Temer has given the initiators of the current wave of protest, truck drivers, ultimately for an important part their way.
In Sao Paulo (Brazil) a large fire destroyed two buildings on Tuesday morning. The fire brigade has been pulled out with 57 vehicles to get the fire under control. That reports the Brazilian news site Estadao. It is still unclear whether and how many victims there are.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has passed the deadline to report to the Brazilian police. According to the media, the former president is negotiating about this.
A federal judge in Brazil has ordered that former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva must report to the prison no later than Friday afternoon to begin serving a prison sentence of twelve years.
