Socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) congratulated the government of Brazil on Wednesday for passing a labor law that reduces the work week to 40 hours, applauding socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva just days before the country’s presidential election.
\n\nMamdani notably stopped short of endorsing Lula against conservative rival Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, potentially seeking to avoid accusations of foreign interference in the Brazilian election at a time when Democrats are issuing scandalized statements condemning foreign leaders, even those with American citizenship, for expressing preferences in the American midterm elections. Mamdani does not appear to have given Bolsonaro similar time to discuss his policies personally, however, or otherwise involved himself in the Brazilian election.
\n\nVoters in Brazil will go to the polls on Sunday to choose between Lula and Bolsonaro, the two top candidates in the first round of voting in early October. In Brazil, presidents can only be elected in one round of voting if they won 50 percent or more of the vote; Bolsonaro won the election on October 4 but with only 47 percent of the vote. Lula, on the cusp of 81 years of age, is campaigning for a fourth term in office…
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