Brazil: New scandal stirs up the election campaign once again

With one month to go before the elections, Brazilian politics is full of so many plot twists that it’s hard to make any predictions. Until last week, the current president and Workers’ Party candidate for reelection, Lula da Silva, was leading in the polls. But a new scandal involving Banco Master and the Supreme Federal Court justice who ordered Jair Bolsonaro’s arrest, Alexandre de Moraes, appears to be giving far-right candidate Flávio Bolsonaro an edge—even though Lula is not directly involved in the scandal and Flávio is. This article from The Irish Times explains this complex case in more detail.