Brazil’s Lula launches historic fourth term bid – but son of jailed Bolsonaro stands in his way

President, 80, vows to keep far-right from power as Flavio Bolsonaro tells supporters he will fight this system'

Brazil's leftwing president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has launched his campaign for a historic fourth term and vowed that as long as he lived he would not allow the shameless" right to return to power.

Addressing a sea of supporters in Sao Bernardo do Campo, the industrial city where his political career began nearly half a century ago, the 80-year-old politician reminded voters of the chaos and violence that unfolded during the 2018-22 presidency of his far-right predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, whose son Flavio Bolsonaro will face Lula in October's presidential election.