Students, whose mobilization was one of the keys to the re-election last Sunday of Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, returned to the streets this Sunday to defend, and especially celebrate, the victory of the progressive leader, which is not recognized by the far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro.
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Called by the combative National Union of Students (UNE), hundreds of demonstrators marched this Sunday through the streets of nine regional capitals (Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Maceió, Manaus, Goiania, Cuiabá, Belém, Recife and Porto Alegre) to celebrate Lula’s re-election and repudiate Bolsonaro’s flight from the country and his attempt to cast doubt on the election result.
With the elections already decided, however, this Sunday’s marches were not as massive as those organized by the UNE during the campaign, which helped Lula in his comeback after being the second most voted candidate in the first round of the presidential elections.
The main concentration was registered in Praça Roosevelt in São Paulo, the largest city in the country, where some five hundred demonstrators, in a totally festive atmosphere, ironized the letter in which the eldest son of former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022), after fleeing the country and landing in Miami, proclaimed himself the “true president-elect of Brazil.”
A festa da vitória já começou na Praça Roosevelt, em São Paulo. Estamos celebrando a mobilização popular e a conquista nas urnas, mas também reafirmando nosso compromisso de continuarmos ocupando as ruas. Nada será como antes!
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— União da Juventude Socialista (@UJSBRASIL) November 1, 2026
The demonstrations were precisely called with the slogan “Brazil with S”, in reference to the aforementioned letter from the opposition candidate, erroneously adorned with the country’s coat of arms when it was still known as “Estados Unidos do Brazil” (with Z).
According to the UNE, the new marches were called to defend the legitimacy of the electoral process and prevent its result from being ignored in a campaign to weaken democratic institutions.
The demonstrations took place a week after Lula won the second round of the presidential elections, with 51.79% of the votes; and above the 48.21% obtained by Bolsonaro, who had been the most voted in the first round.
Between the two votes, the student movement led mobilizations and campaigns on social networks that helped Lula in his comeback.
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