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Lula enters the municipal campaign at the last minute in the face of a divided bolsonarism in São Paulo
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva entered at the last minute in the campaign for this Sunday’s municipal elections in support of his candidate in São Paulo, a key city and in which the far-right of former president Jair Bolsonaro is completely divided.
Lula, who had been almost absent from the campaign for the municipal elections, participated this Saturday in an act in favor of Guilherme Boulos, candidate for mayor of São Paulo, who with 9.3 million voters constitutes the largest electoral college in the country.
Both walked along the central Paulista Avenue, in an act without speakers due to the electoral ban and accompanied by several thousand followers of Lula, the great reference of Brazilian progressivism.
Boulos is a deputy of the Socialism and Freedom Party (PSOL) and is in coalition with the Workers’ Party (PT), of Lula, which has lost municipal weight and in these elections only has its own candidates for mayor in 1,379 of the 5,569 municipalities.
The Liberal Party (PL), which is led by Bolsonaro and had almost no national presence until 2018, when the far right broke out, has nominated 1,477 candidates for mayor, but in São Paulo it has been divided after the appearance of Pablo Marçal, a newcomer to politics even more extreme than the former president himself.
Provocation as the norm of the dissident ultra-right
During the campaign, Marçal has insulted his opponents in every way, provoked to the power and spread lies in bulk, which have earned him sanctions from the electoral authorities and that one of his adversaries lost patience and attacked him with a chair in a debate broadcast on television.
However, with a style that borders on the patanería, it has slipped among the favorites and the polls attribute about 20% support, as well as to Boulos and the current São Paulo mayor and candidate for re-election, Ricardo Nunes, supported by Bolsonaro, who like Lula has remained distant from the campaign in São Paulo.
Marçal caused his last scandal this Friday, when he disclosed an alleged medical document according to which Boulos was a cocaine user, which was immediately denied by the socialist, who intends to bring the matter to criminal justice.
According to the polls, the election in São Paulo will go to a second round on October 27, as will happen in the 103 cities with more than 200,000 voters, if no candidate exceeds 50% of the votes.
Put in this way, it is not ruled out that that instance will be disputed in the strategic São Paulo by two references of the far right, which could put Bolsonaro himself in a brete.
Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte, the other jewels of the crown
The trilogy of municipal power, which can be important in the 2026 presidential elections for its influence from the local, is completed by Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte.
In Rio de Janeiro, the second polling station in the country, with five million voters, everything favors the centrist Eduardo Paes, who aspires to re-election supported by Lula and has a voting intention ranging from 50 to 55%.
In Rio, Bolsonaro supports Alexandre Ramagem, of the PL, whom he accompanied this Saturday in an event in the populous northern area of the city and does not exceed 20% in the polls.
They are the centrist Fuad Noman, who aspires to re-election, his adversary in that same field Mauro Tramonte, and the bolsonarista Bruno Engler. Lula’s PT presents Deputy Rogério Correia, whose intention to vote does not reach 10%.
In the rest of the country, the panorama distances itself from the polarized dispute between Bolsonaro and progressism that prevails at the national level and favors center parties, which are the true faithful of the political balance and tend to lean, depending on the situation of the moment, towards one or the other extreme.
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UK prepares court battle to ensure Chelsea sale money supports ukrainian humanitarian aid
The British government has threatened legal action against Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich to ensure that the £2.5 billion (€2.97 billion) raised from the sale of Chelsea Football Club reaches the Ukrainian victims of Russia’s full-scale war.
“The government is determined that the proceeds from the sale of Chelsea Football Club go to humanitarian causes in Ukraine following Russia’s illegal large-scale invasion,” said Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves and Foreign Secretary David Lammy in a joint statement on Tuesday.
“We are deeply frustrated that so far it has not been possible to reach an agreement with Mr. Abramovich on this matter,” they added. “While the door to negotiations remains open, we are fully prepared to take this to court if necessary, to ensure that the people suffering in Ukraine can benefit from these funds as soon as possible.”
Abramovich, who has denied accusations of being a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was sanctioned following Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The oil and gas magnate sold Chelsea in May 2022 to a consortium led by U.S. investor Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital after the British government allowed him to relinquish the club on the condition that he would not personally profit from the transaction.
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Ukraine’s Security Service Damages Foundations of Crimea Bridge in Underwater Explosion
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) announced on Tuesday that it damaged the foundations of the Kerch Bridge, which connects the Crimean Peninsula with mainland Russia, in a special operation by detonating 1,100 kilograms of explosives placed underwater.
“The operation lasted several months. SBU agents placed mines on the foundations of this illegal structure. And today, with no civilian casualties, at 04:44 local time, the first explosive was detonated,” the SBU said in a statement accompanied by a video and a photograph of the damaged bridge.
The SBU recalled that this is the third Ukrainian attack on the bridge since the war began. The bridge was built by Russian President Vladimir Putin after Russia’s annexation of the Ukrainian Crimean Peninsula in 2014.
The head of the SBU, Vasil Maliuk, personally supervised the operation. Maliuk stated in the release that “the Crimea Bridge is an absolutely legitimate target,” as it was constructed to connect Russia to occupied Ukrainian territory and serves as a “logistical artery for supplying” the Russian military.
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According to Bob Cai, 2024 was the first year of large-scale AI deployment. By the end of 2024, the number of AI large language models (LLMs) worldwide surpassed 1,300, and the shipments and applications of AI devices increased tenfold in just one year.
As a pioneer in AI development, he said China initially created a relatively complete AI application ecosystem.
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