🗳 🇧🇷 📊 Brazil (Presidential Election, second round), 72.8% counted:

Lula (PT, centre-left): 51.0% (+0.5)
F. Bolsonaro (PL, right): 49.0% (-0.5)

(+/- vs 60.9% counted)

📎 America Elects

🗳 🇧🇷 📊 Brazil (Presidential Election, second round), 81.2% counted:

Lula (PT, centre-left): 51.3% (+0.3)
F. Bolsonaro (PL, right): 48.7% (-0.3)

(+/- vs 72.8% counted)

📎 America Elects

🇧🇷🤡⭐ — President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s (PT) campaign is already celebrating the election results.

🗳 🇧🇷 📊 Brazil (Presidential Election, second round), 90.9% counted:

Lula (PT, centre-left): 51.6% (+0.3)
F. Bolsonaro (PL, right): 48.4% (-0.3)

(+/- vs 81.2% counted)

📎 America Elects

🇧🇷⚖️✔️🤡 — URGENT: THE SUPERIOR ELECTORAL COURT (TSE) CONFIRMS PRESIDENT LUIZ INÁCIO LULA DA SILVA’S (PT) VICTORY IN BRAZIL’S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

🗳 🇧🇷 📊 Brazil (Presidential Election, second round), 99.7% counted:

Lula (PT, centre-left): 51.8% (+0.2)
F. Bolsonaro (PL, right): 48.2% (-0.2)

(+/- vs 90.7% counted)

📎 America Elects

Brazil 🇧🇷 - By State

🇧🇷 FLÁVIO BOLSONARO (PL)
🔵 Rio Grande do Sul
🔵 Santa Catarina
🔵 Paraná
🔵 São Paulo
🔵 Rio de Janeiro
🔵 Espírito Santo
🔵 Minas Gerais
🔵 Mato Grosso do Sul
🔵 Mato Grosso
🔵 Rondônia
🔵 Acre
🔵 Roraima
🔵 Tocantins
🔵 Goiás
🔵 Brasília

🇧🇷 LULA DA SILVA (PT)
🔴 Amazonas
🔴 Pará
🔴 Amapá
🔴 Ceará
🔴 Piauí
🔴 Maranhão
🔴 Bahia
🔴 Rio Grande do Norte
🔴 Pernambuco
🔴 Paraíba
🔴 Alagoas
🔴 Sergipe

🇫🇷🗳 France's Le Pen launches presidential bid as protests rattle the nation

"We are not living through the end of the world but the end of a world, their world," she said of her political ​opponents.

Le Pen chose to make her first campaign address in Orléans, home to Joan of Arc, the 15th-century warrior ​heroine revered by nationalists as a symbol of patriotism and sovereignty.

Addressing a crowd of cheering supporters, she ⁠promised "zero tolerance" policing and said restoring security was the state's first duty.

Seeking to ​project optimism, Le Pen built her speech around the theme of a national "Renaissance". She said France was living through a period ​of upheaval but would emerge stronger if it embraced her vision of security, prosperity and renewal.

"We say: 'Things were good before, they will be better ‌tomorrow!'," ⁠she said.

Le Pen promised a hard line on immigration, pledging to restore border controls, automatically expel foreign criminals and crack down on gangs and drug traffickers.

Le Pen herself could have to campaign wearing an ankle tag after she was convicted of embezzling European Parliament funds. She is appealing the court verdict.

On the economy, Le Pen pledged spending restraint, lower business taxes, reduced bureaucracy and support for ​industry, innovation and artificial intelligence. She ​rejected further increases in the ⁠retirement age.

The congress was designed to showcase unity at the top of the National Rally party, with Jordan Bardella re-elected party president and presented as Le Pen's choice for prime minister.

Bardella's speech ​was interrupted by activists from a Jewish student union, drawing attention to recent accusations he ​made antisemitic comments in ⁠his youth, which he denies.

On Europe, Le Pen stopped short of advocating ⁠a French ​exit from the European Union, but said she would roll back Brussels' ​influence, restore national control over borders and laws, and put French interests first, including avoiding foreign wars.

🔗 https://www.reuters.com/world/frances-le-pen-launches-presidential-bid-protests-rattle-nation-2026-10-25/

🇪🇬🇸🇦🇾🇪⚡️ — NEW: Egypt’s parliament has authorized the military to provide support to Saudi Arabia amid escalating Houthi (Ansarallah) attacks on the kingdom.

Egypt’s potential involvement is limited to defending Saudi territory and borders, ruling out any offensive operations in or against Yemen.