# Lula or Bolsonaro: How Brazil’s runoff could reshape foreign policy

https://mins.news/en/video/94854

- Al Jazeera English, 2026-10-10 22:30 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuMIdCtUOFY

> Brazil’s coming presidential runoff is also a choice about how Latin America’s largest country will position itself in a rapidly changing world. Lula has backed strategic autonomy, multilateralism and closer ties with the Global South, while not taking sides in conflicts involving Iran or Russia and Ukraine. Flavio Bolsonaro is more closely aligned ideologically with Donald Trump and the United States.

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