Brazil's Polarized Ballot: From Lula's Comeback to the 2026 Run-Off

A timeline tracing Brazil's political polarization from the 2013 protests and the Workers' Party crisis through Lula's imprisonment and comeback, Jair Bolsonaro's presidency and the 2023 Brasília riots, to the reported 2026 runoff between Lula and Flavio Bolsonaro. The angle is how dynastic rivalry, judicial politics and street mobilization produced one of the world's most consequential democratic contests. This timeline was generated automatically by TimeStrands AI from Wikipedia research. Facts are sourced; framing may be imperfect.