# Brazil’s Lula announces welfare increase and free weight-loss jabs ahead of election

https://mins.news/en/item/64634

- The Guardian, 2026-09-18 17:10 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/18/brazil-lula-welfare-payments-weight-loss-jabs-election

> Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has announced a 15% rise in the main cash-transfer program for poor families and free weight-loss injections through the public health system. Opponents call the measures electorally motivated, coming two weeks before the presidential vote, when Lula faces far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro.

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