{"id":1457869,"date":"2026-10-27T10:23:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T08:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/trump-calls-brazils-presidential-election-rigged\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T10:23:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T08:23:17","slug":"trump-calls-brazils-presidential-election-rigged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/trump-calls-brazils-presidential-election-rigged\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump calls Brazil&#8217;s presidential election rigged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>US President Donald Trump has questioned the integrity of the presidential election in Brazil, which was won by the incumbent head of state, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-10-26\/trump-says-brazil-election-looked-rigged-after-lula-victory\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is reported by<\/a> Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cIt looked like another rigged election. I just think that this election, the way the votes were counted, looked very bad. They gave extra time, and it was very strange,\u201d Trump told reporters on October 26.<\/p>\n<p> The US President criticized the decision to extend voting by two hours and also expressed doubts about the vote count.<\/p>\n<p> At the same time, Trump did not answer whether he planned to take any action in connection with the election results. He only noted that he has a good relationship with Lula da Silva.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Why did the election controversy arise?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The second round of the presidential election in Brazil took place on October 25. According to the results of the vote <strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/brazyliia-obrala-prezydenta-lula-da-silva-peremih-uchetverte\/\">Lula da Silva won 51.79% of the vote,<\/a> while his opponent, Flaviu Bolsonaro, won 48.21%<\/strong> .<\/p>\n<p> Bolsonaro, the son of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, initially refused to concede defeat and demanded the results be annulled.<\/p>\n<p> The reason was the decision of the Brazilian Supreme Court to extend the voting by two hours. At the same time, representatives of both candidates requested an extension.<\/p>\n<p> According to an analysis of election data, less than 35,000 voters cast their votes in the additional two hours, while Lula&#8217;s lead exceeded <strong>4.4 million votes<\/strong> .<\/p>\n<p> Subsequently, Bolsonaro&#8217;s Liberal Party officially recognized the election results, although it stated the need to clarify the circumstances of the continuation of the vote.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has questioned the integrity of the presidential election in Brazil, which was won by the incumbent head of state, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. This is reported by Bloomberg. \u201cIt looked like another rigged election. I just think that this election, the way the votes were counted, looked very bad. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1453912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1457869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1453912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}