# Brazil elections: Can Lula’s anti-poverty record win over voters?

https://mins.news/en/video/81602

- France 24 English, 2026-10-01 09:51 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYd15vBMkYI

> Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is seeking a fourth and final term in the October 4 presidential election. Fighting hunger and poverty was a central promise of his 2022 campaign, and government social and economic programmes lifted nearly nine million people out of poverty between 2023 and 2024, with the sharpest decline in the Northeast. The question is whether that progress will translate into votes.

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