election results Archives - Flux https://flux.community/tag/election-results/ A platform for change Fri, 12 Aug 2022 01:40:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 ‘Dictatorship never again’: massive pro-democracy protests sweep Brazil https://flux.community/brett-wilkins/2022/08/dictatorship-never-again-massive-pro-democracy-protests-sweep-brazil/ Fri, 12 Aug 2022 13:00:03 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=12039 Protests—some of them massive—in defense of democracy and education and against far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s coup-mongering were held in cities across Brazil Thursday, less than two months before the first round of the South American nation’s presidential election. Demonstrations took place in at least 23 of Brazil’s 26 state capitals, as well as in the […]

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]]> Sanders warns that ‘like Trump, Bolsonaro is attempting to undermine democracy in Brazil’ https://flux.community/jake-johnson/2022/07/sanders-warns-that-like-trump-bolsonaro-is-attempting-to-undermine-democracy-in-brazil/ Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:00:54 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=11878 U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders warned after meeting with Brazilian civil society leaders on Tuesday that the Latin American country’s far-right leader, President Jair Bolsonaro, appears poised to replicate Donald Trump’s attempt to subvert the democratic process in a bid to stay in power as he trails in the polls to leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. “Like Trump, […]

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