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Brazil's presidential election saw incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and rival Jair Bolsonaro close out their campaigns, with polls showing Lula's lead narrowing and neither candidate expected to win outright in the first round. Ballot boxes were transported by boat to remote Indigenous communities in the Amazon to ensure access to voting, with Amazon conservation emerging as a key campaign issue. The election has also become entangled in a dispute over alleged US election interference, with Lula and Bolsonaro clashing over sovereignty, security, and relations with Washington, raising the stakes for Brazilian democracy and its foreign relations.