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The new measures will cost some 273 billion reais ($52 billion) this year and next, according to an analysis of government figures by Reuters, adding to fiscal challenges for whoever wins the election. Congressional approval is pending for 146 billion reais worth of that spending. Federal prosecutors responsible for enforcing electoral law have not taken up calls to investigate the allegations of the president's abuse of his budgetary authority. Lula led Bolsonaro in the first-round vote by 5 percentage points overall, an advantage that opinion polls showed was bolstered by lower-income Brazilians. Auxilio Brasil is not the only program that government critics and legal experts have flagged on suspicion of skirting electoral law.

How Brazil’s Leader Built the Myth of Rigged Elections By Jack Nicas, Flávia Milhorance and Ana Ionova Produced by Gray Beltran Leer en españolFor years, President Jair Bolsonaro has attacked Brazil’s election systems. Yet in speeches, interviews and hundreds of posts on social media, the president has consistently and methodically repeated those baseless claims and many others about Brazil’s voting system. At the time, he suggested that the election’s results could not be trusted because of the voting machines. He showed a video from a programmer who claimed to demonstrate how voting machines were hacked in 2018. (Experts and fact-checkers said the video was riddled with errors, including a fundamental misunderstanding of how the voting system works.)

☆ Brazil's Lula widens lead slightly over Bolsonaro for Sunday vote -poll
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

BRASILIA, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Leftist presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has increased his lead slightly over his far-right adversary President Jair Bolsonaro six days ahead of their runoff in Brazil's divisive election, a Monday poll said. Lula leads by 52.0% of the votes against 46.2% for Bolsonaro, according to the AtlasIntel poll, inching forward from 51.1% to Bolsonaro's 46.5% in the previous poll two weeks ago. The poll was completed before a shooting incident on Sunday involving Bolsonaro supporter and former Congressman Roberto Jefferson, which had the president's campaign worried about a negative impact on opinion polls, a senior aide said. "The poll is good news for Lula," said AtlasIntel chief executive Andrei Roman. Although the survey did not reflect the impact of Sunday's incident where the Bolsonaro supporter shot and wounded policemen as he resisted arrest, Roman said the president's recovery since the first-round vote on Oct. 2 has stalled.

☆ Lula lead narrows to less than 5 points in Brazil election - AtlasIntel survey
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

BRASILIA, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Brazilian presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's polling lead over incumbent Jair Bolsonaro has narrowed to less than 5 percentage points, according to a new opinion survey published on Thursday by pollster AtlasIntel. In its first poll since the first-round vote on Oct. 2, pollster AtlasIntel found 51.1% of voters for Lula and 46.5% behind Bolsonaro. Excluding undecided voters and null votes, Lula has 52.4% support and Bolsonaro 47.6%. AtlasIntel was one of several polling firms criticized for underestimating support for Bolsonaro in the first round, although it was closer than several more traditional pollsters. AtlasIntel had registered a 9-point lead for Lula ahead of that vote, when in fact the difference was just 5 points.

☆ Un ministru din Uganda a fost rănit într-o tentativă de asasinat în care a fost ucisă fiica lui
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-01 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Sursa foto: Radio 4 Uganda / FacebookUn ministru din Uganda a fost rănit într-o tentativă de asasinat în care a fost ucisă fiica luiMai multe persoane înarmate au deschis focul asupra unei mașini în care se afla ministrul Muncii și Transporturilor din Uganda, rănindu-l pe fostul comandant de armată și ucigând-o pe fiica lui, dar și pe șoferul autovehiculului, a anunțat un purtător de cuvânt al armatei, citat de publicația The Guardian. Patru atacatori pe motociclete au tras asupra mașinii care îl transporta pe generalul Katumba Wamala printr-o suburbie a capitalei Kiasasi, a relatat televiziunea locală NBS. „S-a tras asupra lui... El a fost rănit și transportat la spital, iar șoferul lui a fost ucis", a spus Flavia Byekwaso, purtător de cuvânt al armatei. Tentativa de asasinare a lui Wamala a avut loc în aceeași suburbie a capitalei unde în 2017 mai mulți bărbați aflați pe motociclete au deschis focul asupra mașinii în care se afla un înalt ofițer de poliție. Felix Kaweesa a fost ucis în atac, alături de șoferul lui, scrie digi24.ro.

Persons: Katumba, El, ., Chris Baryomunsi, Wamala, Felix Kaweesa Organizations: Facebook, Muncii, Transporturilor, Guardian Locations: Uganda, Kiasasi

☆ Fostul lider PSD, Liviu Dragnea, a primit aviz pozitiv pentru eliberare de la Penitenciarul Rahova
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-21 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Sursa foto: wikipedia.orgFostul lider PSD, Liviu Dragnea, a primit aviz pozitiv pentru eliberare de la Penitenciarul RahovaLiviu Dragnea, fostul lider PSD de la București, a primit aviz pozitiv pentru eliberare din partea Comisiei Penitenciarului Rahova. Instanța, însă, este cea care va lua o decizie finală cu privire la eliberarea lui Liviu Dragnea, pe data de 27 aprilie. Flavia Todosiu, avocatul lui Liviu Dragnea, a confirmat avizul favorabil de liberare condiționată primit de Liviu Dragnea din partea Comisiei Penitenciarului Rahova. Fostul lider PSD a avut mai multe conflicte cu cei din conducerea Penitenciarului Rahova, unde execută pedeapsa, intentând mai multe procese, pe motiv că nu este lăsat să muncească în atelierul auto al închisorii. Potrivit portalului instanţelor, Dragnea a depus cererea de eliberare condiţionată pe 12 aprilie, iar instanţa a stabilit termen pentru soluţionare în data de 27 aprilie.

Persons: Liviu Dragnea, Rahova Liviu Dragnea, Flavia Todosiu, Dragnea, Anca Alexandrescu, Plus, PSD Liviu Dragnea Organizations: PSD, Mediafax, Sectorului Locations: Rahova, București, Teleorman, România, Penitenciarului Rahova, Penitenciarul Rahova

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