Another Suspicious Election in Brazil

When will the people decide they’ve finally had enough?

J.B. Shurk | October 28, 2026

Once again, a major national election is tainted by the appearance of fraud.  This one occurred in Brazil, where communist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (aka, “Lula”) claimed victory over Flávio Nantes Bolsonaro.  

Over the course of his political career, Lula was implicated in several vote-buying scandals but managed to avoid prosecution.  In 2017, he was finally convicted of numerous public corruption offenses — including bribery, money laundering, influence peddling, and obstruction of justice — and eventually sentenced to seventeen years in prison.  

Lula’s communist and Marxist-globalist friends around the world — including Pope Francis, Noam Chomsky, Bernie Sanders, Ro Khanna, and the United Nations’ Human Rights Committee — painted Lula as a “political prisoner” and worked for years to secure his release.  In 2021, Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court annulled Lula’s convictions (holding that the original court lacked jurisdiction and that Lula’s prosecution had been politically motivated) and ruled that all evidence used against him would be inadmissible in any future court proceedings.  

Lula immediately declared his candidacy for president and won his third term in office in 2022 by defeating President Jair Messias Bolsonaro with 50.9% of the vote to Bolsonaro’s 49.1%.  Bolsonaro’s supporters accused Lula and the courts of engaging in corruption and fraud as part of a scheme to install the criminally convicted communist in the presidency.  Bolsonaro’s party eventually contested the election on the grounds that the internal logs of electronic voting machines showed irregularities and that the criminally convicted Lula was not eligible to have run for office in the first place.  

Public riots against Lula’s election grew through December of 2022, and on January 8, 2023, thousands of Bolsonaro’s supporters stormed and ransacked the National Congress, the presidential office, and the Supreme Federal Court.  Lula and his judicial allies used the incident to accuse Bolsonaro of plotting a coup d’état — exactly as Democrats had used the January 6, 2021, protest against........

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