Brazil’s Lula announces higher welfare payments and free weight-loss jabs ahead of election

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• The Guardian
  Brazil’s Lula announces higher welfare payments and free weight-loss jabs ahead of election

  <p>Critics say moves from leftwing incumbent president are electorally motivated two weeks before Brazil’s elections</p><p>Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has announced a 15% increase in the country’s main cash-transfer programme for poor families, as well as free weight-loss jabs, prompting criticism from opponents who say the moves are electorally motivated just two weeks before the presidential election.</p><p>On 4 October, the leftwing incumbent will face the far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro, son of the former president Jair Bolsonaro, who has been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/15/brazil-supreme-court-presidential-election">gaining ground</a> in recent weeks.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/18/brazil-lula-welfare-payments-weight-loss-jabs-election">Continue reading...</a>

  Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:10:37 GMT

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