Ex-convict wins for president in Brazil

On July 12, 2017, federal judge Sergio Moro sentenced former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to nine years and six months in prison in the criminal action relating to the triplex case, for the crimes of passive corruption and money laundering.

Shortly after the release of two electoral polls, the minister called a press conference at Palácio da Alvorada and announced that audits show that radios and TVs, mainly in the northeast of the country, stopped broadcasting 154,000 insertions of Bolsonaro.