Brazil’s election left hanging as judge extends vote after polls close, sparking chaos
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- El País (Spain)seen 26 Oct, 19:39headline rewritten
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Sun, 25 October 2026
7 reports- Le Figaro (France)18:50first to report
Lula a accusé plusieurs autorités locales de limiter l’accès aux urnes en réduisant les transports en commun. Le camp Bolsonaro a lui aussi saisi la justice, invoquant les fortes pluies qui touchaient certaines régions.
- RMF24 (Poland)20:45
Głosowanie w Brazylii zostało wydłużone. Lula mówił o zatrzymanych autobusach
- Die Zeit (Germany)20:50
Brasiliens Oberstes Gericht verlängert die Öffnungszeiten der Wahllokale um zwei Stunden. Zuvor hatte sich Amtsinhaber Lula über die Behinderung von Wählern beschwert.
- El País (Spain)20:56edited after publishing
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Resultados de las elecciones en Brasil, en vivoEl candidato ultraderechista plantea que “llegó la hora del cambio, Brasil no aguanta más”
- South China Morning Post21:18
A Supreme Court justice in Brazil ordered polls in the presidential run-off to stay open for two more hours on Sunday, minutes after voting had officially ended at 5pm Brasilia time (4am on Monday in Hong Kong). The order left election officials across China’s biggest trading partner in Latin America unsure whether to reopen polling stations or send their machines to be counted. Justice Cristiano Zanin, who was President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s lawyer before joining the court in 2023,...
- Wirtualna Polska (Poland)22:31
W Brazylii zakończyła się druga tura wyborów prezydenckich. Lokale wyborcze pracowały o dwie godziny dłużej po decyzji sędziego Sądu Najwyższego. O urząd walczą obecny prezydent Lula da Silva oraz prawicowy senator Flavio Bolsonaro. Ostatnie sondaże wskazywały na minimalną wygraną Bolsonaro.
- El Mundo (Spain)23:54
El mal tiempo y la falta de transporte público a lo largo del país desembocó en la extensión de dos horas del horario electoral, una situación inédita en la historia del país Leer
Mon, 26 October 2026
10 reports- Die Zeit (Germany)00:21
- Wirtualna Polska (Poland)02:30
Prawicowy senator Flavio Bolsonaro nie uznał wyniku drugiej tury wyborów prezydenckich w Brazylii. Polityk, który według Najwyższego Trybunału Wyborczego przegrał z Luizem Inacio Lulą da Silvą, zażądał unieważnienia głosowania - informuje agencja AP.
- Telegram.hr (Croatia)06:09
Flávio Bolsonaro traži poništenje rezultata zbog odluke o produljenju glasovanja za dva sata. Najavio je pravnu bitku.
- N1 Info (Croatia)06:18
Desničarski predsjednički kandidat Flávio Bolsonaro odbio je priznati poraz od aktualnog predsjednika Luiza Inácioa Lule da Silve u drugom krugu preds
- Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany)07:45
Ein Gericht hatte am Wahltag selbst auf Antrag des 80-jährigen Lula entschieden, dass die Lokale länger geöffnet haben. Die große Frage ist nun, welches Nachspiel das hat. Bolsonaro fordert eine Annullierung.
- El Pais English07:56
The far-right candidate announces a legal battle against what he called an ‘outrage’ following a judge’s decision to extend voting by two hours
- MercoPress (South America)13:39
The president of Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court, Kassio Nunes Marques, who was appointed to the Supreme Federal Court by former president Jair Bolsonaro in 2020, said on Monday that the extension of voting hours did not change the result of the runoff won by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president’s son, had cited the extension in refusing to recognise his defeat and calling for the election to be annulled.
- The Guardian World17:10
Polls officially close after Brazilian supreme court ordered the extension Sunday as Flávio Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva await results The local electoral court ordered the immediate restoration of 100% of the bus fleet and ordered the arrest of the municipal transport secretary, Pablo Souza, on suspicion of an electoral offence and disobeying court orders. The arrest warrant could not be carried out, however, because he is in Paris on what the city government described as an...
- Anadolu Agency (AA)20:37
Flavio Bolsonaro says passport surrender order came hours after Lula's runoff victory, vows to challenge ruling
- Telegram.hr (Croatia)21:38
U drugom krugu izbora izgubio je od predsjednika Luiza Inacija Lule da Silve