Dorival Renato Pavan began acting as governor of Mato Grosso do Sul on November 1 after the governor, vice governor and president of the state Assembly were all unavailable. The six-day handover follows the state constitution’s succession order and is not linked to misconduct proceedings.
Brazil’s Federal Police will investigate possible foreign resources, overseas-paid election content, platform conduct and links to interests in critical minerals under an order by Supreme Court Justice Flávio Dino. The court said the allegations warrant scrutiny but do not establish wrongdoing.
Brazil’s Public Labor Prosecutor’s Office recorded 1,937 complaints of alleged workplace electoral harassment through the October 25, 2026 runoff vote. The figure is a dated snapshot, not a count of proven violations, but it prompted civil actions, provisional court orders and voluntary compliance agreements.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro traded personal attacks and competing misconduct accusations in their first televised debate ahead of Brazil’s October 25 presidential runoff.
Brazil’s electoral inspector-general gave Meta and X Brasil 24 hours to provide technical explanations about AI tools, political-content distribution and moderation in an investigation into alleged preferential treatment of presidential candidates.
Brazil’s top electoral court unanimously upheld a preliminary order requiring Meta to apply equal treatment to the presidential campaigns of Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro through the October 25 runoff. The court has not concluded that Meta deliberately manipulated content distribution.
Brazil’s top electoral court unanimously ordered the Liberal Party to remove an Instagram video that used AI-generated imagery to depict President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in a fictitious prison encounter and associate him with organized crime.
Brazil’s Federal Police said its final October 4 election-operation tally included 49 inquiries, 100 summary-offense reports and R$2.85 million in seized property and funds. The figures concern suspected offenses and do not establish guilt.
Brazil’s electoral court has ordered Meta to apply equal treatment to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro across its platforms before the October 25 presidential runoff. The injunction does not determine that Meta previously acted with political bias or intentionally favored either candidate.
Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court has given telecom regulator Anatel 48 hours to provide further details after inspections found that free, data-cap-exempt access to digital electoral services was not uniform during the first-round voting period.
Brazil has begun taking fixed-odds betting sites and apps offline under a federal provisional measure that bans their operation, offering, intermediation and advertising nationwide.
Brazil’s Federal Police reported preliminary election-day enforcement figures on October 4, including 194 people taken in and R$1.83 million in assets and cash seized. The cases remain under investigation and the figures do not establish guilt.
Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court said paper ballots matched the votes recorded by two Federal District electronic voting machines tested at its headquarters during the October 4 first-round election.
Brazil’s Federal Police said it had opened 1,224 new inquiries into alleged electoral crimes in 2026 through October 1, alongside 94 active inquiries involving political violence against women. The figures are preliminary investigative totals, not findings of guilt.
Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court has upheld the denial of José Roberto Arruda’s registration for governor of the Federal District, ordering him to stop campaigning and cutting off access to electoral funding, broadcasts and debates.
Registered candidates in Brazil’s 2026 election could not be arrested or detained from September 19 through October 6, except when caught in flagrante delito, under the Electoral Code and the electoral calendar.