Brazilian election sends US progressives into online fever as key irregularity stokes result uncertainty

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won a fourth term as Brazil's president, but a last-minute decision to lengthen voting hours has left a cloud over the result. Progressives in the United States cheered the outcome online Monday, reading it as a rebuke of the Trump administration and its allies. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N. Y. , wrote on X that Brazil had shown the will of the people to be stronger than those trying to suppress it, according to Fox News.

The dispute centers on a request Lula made to the country's Supreme Court, asking for two more hours of voting because public transportation had been delayed. Justice Christiano Zanin approved it nationwide less than thirty minutes before polls were due to shut. Lula's opponent, Flávio Bolsonaro, called the move unacceptable, noting that Zanin had once been Lula's lawyer and that the order altered the rules mid-contest. Flávio Bolsonaro's own campaign had also sought an extension, pointing to heavy rain.

Electoral law specialists told Brazilian media that the weather and the extension might support a legal bid to annul the election.

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