# Flávio Bolsonaro’s lead in Brazil election jolts climate campaigners

https://mins.news/en/item/89583

- The Guardian, 2026-10-07 12:03 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/07/flavio-bolsonaro-advance-brazil-election-jolt-climate-campaigners

> Flávio Bolsonaro won 47% in Brazil’s first presidential round, ahead of incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on 44.2%, putting him in pole position for the 25 October runoff. The result alarms climate and nature campaigners: although Lula’s administration has nearly halved Amazon deforestation, that record brought little electoral benefit. A Bolsonaro victory could dismantle environmental safeguards and expose Indigenous territories to illegal mining, logging and land grabbing, threatening Brazil’s biomes and the global climate.

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