“Very bad”
Trump claims: Brazil election was rigged
October 26, 2026 – 10:14 p.mReading time: 1 min.
In Brazil, the left-wing politician Lula emerged as the winner in the presidential election. US President Trump doesn’t like that at all.
US President Donald Trump has described Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s election victory as “rigged”. “I didn’t take sides, but it seemed like another rigged election,” he told reporters close by Washington. “You know, elections have to be uncontestable, and to me it looked very bad,” he continued. On what basis does Trump doubt this? Election result he left open.
Brazil’s Supreme Electoral Court had previously declared the 80-year-old left-wing politician Lula the election winner with 51.8 to 48.2 percent of the vote. However, Lula’s right-wing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro does not want to recognize the result. The son of the ex-president, who is under house arrest, announced that he would take legal action because the opening hours of the polling stations were extended at short notice by two hours Jair Bolsonaro to.
The relationship between Lula and Trump is considered difficult. The Republican clearly supported former President Jair Bolsonaro and sharply criticized his sentence to more than 27 years in prison for his involvement in an attempted coup. While Trump supported Flávio’s father Jair Bolsonaro as a political ally, he publicly held back from his son’s election campaign. At the same time, Trump’s government is under political and economic pressure Brazil exercised. The USA imposed additional tariffs on Brazilian goods.
