{"id":469175,"date":"2026-10-26T11:07:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/10\/26\/brasile-lula-vince-le-elezioni-e-lue-si-congratula-ma-bolsonaro-jr-non-ci-sta-da-annullare\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T11:41:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:41:34","slug":"brazil-lula-wins-the-election-eu-congratulates-him-but-bolsonaro-jr-contests-the-result-it-should-be-annulled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/10\/26\/brazil-lula-wins-the-election-eu-congratulates-him-but-bolsonaro-jr-contests-the-result-it-should-be-annulled\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil: Lula wins the election, EU congratulates him, but Bolsonaro Jr contests the result: \u201cIt should be annulled\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 Lula is set to remain Brazil\u2019s president. The leader of the Workers\u2019 Party and outgoing president has won the run-off, securing a fourth term at the helm of the South American federal republic. Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva has secured victory with 51.7 per cent<\/strong> of the votes cast following a neck-and-neck race with his far-right challenger, Flavio Bolsonaro (48.2 per cent), who is contesting the election result because polling stations remained open for two hours longer than scheduled (9.00 pm Italian time). This was deemed \u201cinexplicable\u201d, leading the son of the former general to call for the \u201cannulment\u201d of the vote.<\/p>\n

The European Union wasted no time celebrating the re-election of the outgoing president: \u201cI spoke with President Lula on the phone last night to congratulate him on his re-election<\/strong>\u201d, the President of the European Council, Ant\u00f3nio Costa,<\/strong> announced on social media. \u201cWe will continue to work together <\/strong>to deepen our ties, tackle global challenges, and build a more peaceful and prosperous world.<\/strong>\u201d <\/p>\n

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen<\/strong>, also expressed her satisfaction: \u201cDemocracy and multilateralism have won in Brazil<\/strong>.\u201d The EU and the European Commission, she added, \u201cwill remain by your side in the years to come\u201d, and \u201ctogether we will keep working closely for free and open trade, a rules-based global order, and ambitions for our climate.”<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2023\/08\/23\/summit-brics-allargamento-moneta-ucraina\/ <\/p>\n

The jubilant reactions from the Old Continent are no coincidence: Lula\u2019s electoral victory means predictable bilateral relations and the safeguarding of the EU-Mercosur trade agreement, in force but on a provisional basis<\/a>. Regarding the first point, Flavio Bolsonaro\u2019s potential arrival at the Pal\u00e1cio do Planalto would have meant political relations with actors other than those on whom the EU can rely, starting with the President of the United States, Donald Trump, against whom the European Union intends to create alternative poles. \u201cThe European Union and Brazil are solid partners,<\/strong>\u201d Costa stressed, as if to highlight the alternative that the EU can represent on the international stage.<\/p>\n

 From a trade perspective, Lula represents a guarantee for the free trade agreement with the Latin American bloc<\/a>, which is regarded as strategic in light of the shifts in US policy. Knowing that it will not be called into question is a huge relief for the EU institutions that negotiated it. <\/p>\n

Moreover, sustainability features far more prominently on Lula\u2019s political agenda than on that of his challenger, Bolsonaro Jr.This aspect, too, should not be overlooked, and von der Leyen\u2019s emphasis on a commitment to climate action is no coincidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the second round of the presidential election, the leader of the Workers\u2019 Party won, but the far-right candidate refused to accept the result. Brussels, however, recognised the official results<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":469170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25707],"tags":[32905,29170,26279,29710,36366,33394],"class_list":["post-469175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","tag-accordo-ue-mercosur","tag-brasile-en","tag-trade-en","tag-squid-en","tag-lula-da-silva","tag-ue"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469176,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469175\/revisions\/469176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}