Socialist ex-president of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s team has launched a campaign insisting that the presidential frontrunner is a Christian and has not made any deals with Satan following the widespread sharing of social media videos appearing to show Satanists casting spells to win him this month’s election.
China’s state-run Global Times propaganda newspaper lamented the results of the Brazilian presidential election on Monday, warning that conservative President Jair Bolsonaro significantly overperforming compared to national polls could lead to a “January 6”-style riot in Brasilia.
Members and allies of President Jair Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party (PL) swept Congressional elections in Brazil on Sunday, sending multiple former members of the conservative president’s cabinet to the legislature and ensuring that, if re-elected, Bolsonaro will have strong support for his agenda from lawmakers.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will face each other in a runoff race having come in second and first place, respectively, in Sunday’s presidential election.
Hollywood actor Mark Ruffalo made an appearance at a campaign rally for socialist ex-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil this week, urging Brazilians to vote for current President Jair Bolsonaro’s rival “for my children and your children.”
Brazil officially opened its presidential election campaign season on Tuesday, sending the frontrunners – incumbent conservative President Jair Bolsonaro and socialist ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – to address large crowds of supporters and make their extremely different pitches on why they should run the country.
Polls closed on Tuesday in Kenya’s presidential election, with two candidates emerging as likely frontrunners for the office — Raila Odinga and William Ruto — Kenya’s Capital FM news website reported.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro officially launched his re-election campaign in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday with a fiery speech condemning communism, “stay at home” Chinese coronavirus protocols, and his top rival Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whom he referred to as an “ex-convict drunkard.”
Marxist former mayor of Bogotá and ex-member of the terrorist M19 guerrilla organization Gustavo Petro declared victory Sunday night in Colombia’s presidential election – despite dismissing the entire endeavor as rigged and calling Colombia’s top election official a “liar” days prior.
Radical Marxist Gustavo Petro, one of two candidates in Colombia’s presidential election on Sunday, said in an interview on Thursday that national voter registrar Alexander Vega was “lying” when he insisted the country has enough security guarantees to ensure a free and fair election.
The first series of polls out following Sunday’s presidential election in Colombia showed on Wednesday that much of the country is uniting against far-left candidate Gustavo Petro for next month’s runoff, backing elderly outsider businessman Rodolfo Hernández.
A former professional comedian named Walter Mong’are Nyambane on Monday became the first official candidate for the upcoming presidential election in Kenya, the country’s Capital FM news website reported.
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. told reporters on Wednesday he was “ready to hit the ground running” following a presumed victory in the 2022 Philippine presidential election earlier that same day.
Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. appeared to lead early vote tallies in the Philippine 2022 presidential election on Monday with 81.8 percent of eligible ballots counted, the Manila-based news website Rappler reported.
Candidates for the 2022 Philippine presidential election staged some of their final rallies this week ahead of the country’s next general election on May 9, which will see Filipinos not only elect a new president but also vote for thousands of national and regional government posts, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
South Koreans elected right-wing candidate Yoon Suk-yeol as their new president on Wednesday, Yonhap News Agency reported on Thursday local time in Seoul.
A 70-year-old man attacked the chairman of South Korea’s ruling party Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), Song Young-gi, with a hammer during a campaign stop in Seoul on Monday, causing Song to suffer injuries to his head requiring stitches, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported.
Voting for Italy´s next president opened without a clear slate of candidates following ex-Premier Berlusconi´s reluctant withdrawal.
Leftist South Korean politician Lee Jae-myung — the official nominee of South Korea’s ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) for the nation’s upcoming presidential election on March 9 — vowed on Friday to expand the public health insurance policy in South Korea to include treatments for hair loss if elected South Korea’s top leader.
Three top candidates for the Philippines’ May 2022 presidential election, including boxer-turned-senator Manny Pacquiao and Ferdinand Marcos Jr., announced the temporary suspension of major campaign activities on Monday due to a recent surge in Chinese coronavirus cases nationwide, the Philippine Star reported.
Conservative candidate José Antonio Kast narrowly defeated communist-supported candidate Gabriel Boric on Sunday in the first round of presidential elections in Chile, setting the stage for a run-off vote in December lacking any centrist option.
Boxer-turned-politician Manny Pacquiao, who recently retired from the ring to run for the Philippine presidency in 2022, said Thursday he would not allow his country to “be bullied” by Beijing in the South China Sea if elected president, ABS-CBN reported.
Peruvians remain no closer to knowing who their next president is on Friday after a shake-up at the National Jury of Elections (JNE) caused by one of its members declaring its investigation into fraud allegations biased.
A dissident activist in Tehran told Breitbart News in an interview Monday that a mass boycott of Iran’s upcoming presidential election is critical to show the world that the Iranian people reject “more repression and terrorism at any cost” at the hands of the Supreme Leader-approved candidates.
A prosecutor on the case against conservative presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori of Peru requested her preventative arrest on Thursday.
Communist candidate Pedro Castillo appears to have won the Peruvian presidential election as of Wednesday afternoon, in a tight race separating him from rival conservative Keiko Fujimori by less than 0.5 percent of the vote.
Keiko Fujimori, the far-right candidate in Peru’s presidential election on Sunday, claimed late on Monday that her party had evidence of “concerning” irregularities that may constitute fraud.
The results of the presidential election in Peru on Sunday remain in a dead heat as of Monday afternoon, with a little over 34,000 votes of the 17 million separating communist candidate Pedro Castillo of the Free Peru party from conservative Keiko Fujimori and her Popular Force party.
Police in Peru opened a “preliminary” police investigation against presidential election frontrunner Pedro Castillo, a far-leftist, this weekend in response to accusations that he lied about holding a second job when filing paperwork to run for office.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of Iran from 2005 to 2013, registered on Wednesday to run once again in the June 18 presidential election. Ahmadinejad’s last comeback attempt in 2017 was scuttled by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but this time Khamenei appears content to let him run. The extremist hardliner’s candidacy is not welcome news for an unstable Middle East roiled by violence from Iran’s client insurgencies and terrorist proxies.
Conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori has attracted a surge of support, bringing her within three points of frontrunner Marxist Pedro Castillo in Peru’s presidential race, a poll published Monday revealed.
At least 100,000 people in the Central African Republic (CAR) have been displaced by fighting between government forces and a coalition of opposition militias in recent weeks, the New Humanitarian reported on Monday.
Ugandan soldiers have “surrounded” the home of opposition leader Bobi Wine, who wrote on Twitter on Monday that he and his wife are being held “captive” inside their house.
Opposition leader and presidential candidate Bobi Wine of Uganda accused soldiers of having “raided” his home and arrested his security guards on Monday morning during a live radio interview for a Kenyan radio station, Deutsche Welle (DW) reported on Tuesday.
On Thursday, Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) sent a letter to President Donald Trump calling on Attorney General William Barr to appoint a Special Counsel to investigate 2020 election irregularities.
President Trump’s message on the 2020 presidential campaign trail — focused on the defense of law enforcement and the working class, and against globalization — resonated massively with the nation’s growing Hispanic American population.
Mexico’s President said it is too early to congratulate any of the U.S. presidential candidates since the elections still have several pending legal issues. In an effort to be respectful to the process, he will wait until all legal matters are resolved before congratulating the winner.
Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson opened his show by explaining the odd approach the left and the media are taking in the lead-up to next month’s presidential election regarding various aspects of the race, including with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
During an interview that aired on Huntsville, AL radio’s WVNN on Thursday, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), the ranking Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee, weighed in on the upcoming presidential election and offered an optimistic take for President Donald Trump’s chances.
The legislature of Taiwan on Tuesday passed an “anti-infiltration” bill designed to reduce political activity by hostile foreign governments – primarily, but not specifically limited to, China.
