The Comeback: Brazil's 2026 Election and the Bolsonaro Question

A timeline running from the 2018 campaign that first pitted Lula's Workers' Party against Jair Bolsonaro, through the 2022 runoff, the January 8, 2023 storming of Congress, Bolsonaro's electoral-court ineligibility and his legal battles, to the 2026 race and the extended-voting, too-close-to-call tally now underway. The spine of the story is how a politician barred from office ended up back on the ballot against the rival he has defined himself against for a decade, and what that says about Brazil's institutions and its polarized electorate. This timeline was generated automatically by TimeStrands AI from Wikipedia research. Facts are sourced; framing may be imperfect.