{"id":275015,"date":"2026-06-18T11:28:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T07:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=275015"},"modified":"2026-06-18T12:24:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T08:24:42","slug":"lula-says-trump-should-stay-out-of-brazils-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/275015\/","title":{"rendered":"Lula says Trump should \u2018stay out\u2019 of Brazil\u2019s elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said &#8203;on Wednesday that US President Donald Trump has the right &zwnj;to have an electoral preference in Brazil, but warned his US counterpart to &ldquo;stay out&rdquo; of this year&rsquo;s elections, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/lula-says-trump-must-stay-out-brazil-elections-2026-06-17\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>Lula, who intends to run for reelection in October&rsquo;s &#8203;vote, made the comments shortly after Trump told reporters that Brazil &#8203;has become a &ldquo;little rough&rdquo; and &ldquo;dangerous politically.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They play pretty tough, but &#8288;nobody plays tougher than the United States,&rdquo; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>Lula&rsquo;s main challenger in polls is Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, son of Trump ally &#8203;and Brazil&rsquo;s ex-President Jair Bolsonaro, who is living under house arrest after &#8203;he was convicted last year of plotting a coup after the 2022 election.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said &#8203;on Wednesday that US President Donald Trump has the right &zwnj;to have an electoral preference in Brazil, but warned his US counterpart to &ldquo;stay out&rdquo; of this year&rsquo;s elections, Reuters writes. Lula, who intends to run for reelection in October&rsquo;s &#8203;vote, made the comments shortly after Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":274974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275016,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275015\/revisions\/275016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}