Alex Soros posted on X right after the runoff: “Lula Lula Lula! Congrats to Brazil for standing up against authoritarianism once again!” Lula took about 51.8 percent to Flávio Bolsonaro’s 48.2 percent, roughly 4.4 million votes more, for a fourth term. Bolsonaro first refused to concede and called for the result to be annulled after a Supreme Court justice ordered two extra hours of voting. His Liberal Party later acknowledged the outcome. Before the vote, Lula’s campaign asked the electoral court to disqualify Bolsonaro over claims that Meta was suppressing his content and boosting the rival. Bolsonaro’s team filed the reverse petition, accusing Lula of abusing power by flooding WhatsApp with government messages. Meta denied the bias claims. After the result, Bolsonaro said he would lead the opposition. Some reports noted federal police asked for his passports after he visited his father, who is already serving time for the 2022 coup plot. Trump called the election “rigged” but stayed hands-off. Soros’s Open Society line is the usual one: democracy won, authoritarianism lost. Critics say the pre-election legal pressure and post-election moves show the opposite.
Just minutes after the election in Brazil was called, Alex Soros was out celebrating Lula’s victory over “authoritarianism”.
The next morning, Lula’s federal police attempted to seize the passports of his political opponent, Flávio Bolsonaro.
He has now been forced to flee the… pic.twitter.com/LPA3ITzEl7
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 27, 2026
O Globo’s Malu Gaspar reported that the Federal Police asked Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes to seize Flávio Bolsonaro’s passports seven minutes after the electoral court mathematically confirmed his loss. TSE system locked in the result at 21:09 on Sunday night. The PF signed its request at 21:16. Moraes granted it the same night without first consulting the prosecutor general. Police served the order Monday morning while Bolsonaro was leaving a visit to his father, who is under house arrest. Bolsonaro said the move rested on a pre-election podcast comment by his brother Eduardo suggesting he leave the country if he lost, plus an ongoing money-laundering probe tied to a lawyer. He called it political intimidation timed to the result. Passports were later canceled after he missed the 24-hour deadline. Some reports say he then left for the US anyway, and the State Department is issuing visas.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/26/flavio-bolsonaro-brazil-lula-election
Brazilian President Lula:
I am just finding out now that my opponent has left the country.
I lost elections to Fernando Henrique Cardoso twice, and I stayed in Brazil.
Alckmin lost to me and stayed in Brazil. pic.twitter.com/LoUKF9Qew0
— Clash Report (@clashreport) October 27, 2026
A senior State Department official says Brazilian opposition candidate Flavio Bolsonaro and his family will be granted U.S. visas after his weekend loss to incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in a hotly contested race that bucked a trend of conservative electoral results in Latin America.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to visa privacy laws, said “the State Department will issue visas to Flavio Bolsonaro and his family and allow them entry into the United States.”
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