Overview
- Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes ordered on Monday a 90‑day ban on any in‑person contact between Senator Flávio Bolsonaro and his father, a restriction that runs through Brazil’s Oct. 4 first‑round vote.
- The judge found that Flávio violated court limits by publicly amplifying a handwritten letter from Jair Bolsonaro, who is under house arrest and barred from political manifestations even through third parties.
- Moraes instructed the electoral prosecutor to evaluate whether the live reading amounted to unlawful early campaign propaganda and gave Jair’s lawyers 48 hours to explain the possible disobedience.
- The Workers’ Party filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to revoke Jair Bolsonaro’s house arrest and return him to the Papuda prison complex, creating an active criminal risk to his detention status.
- The episode deepens fractures in the conservative bloc—Michelle Bolsonaro has broken with Flávio and launched her own movement—and comes while polls show Lula with a modest lead in a still competitive race.