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Who will publicly congratulate/acknowledge Lula as the winner of the Brazil election before the end of October?
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25%
Abiy Ahmed (Ethiopia)
21%
Barack obama
17%
Hillary clinton
17%
Christopher Luxon (NZ PM)
15%
Marco rubio
11%
Michelle obama
11%
Benjamin Netanyahu
8%
Donald trump
6%
Javier Milei
Resolved
YES
Zohran Mamdani
Resolved
YES
Bernie sanders
Resolved
YES
Andy Burnham (UK PM)
Resolved
YES
Anthony Albanese (AUS PM)
Resolved
YES
Vladimir Putin
Resolved
YES
Delcy Rodriguez
Resolved
YES
Emmanuel Macron
Resolved
YES
Pedro Sanchez (Spain)
Resolved
YES
Cyril Ramaphosa (South Africa)
Resolved
YES
Xi jingping
Resolved
YES
Masoud Pezeshkian (Iran)

Resolves if the listed person publicly congratulates or acknowledges Lula as the winner of the 2026 Brazil presidential election before 11..59pm ET October 31 2026

Must be public, rumours/reports a phone call may have occurred don’t count. Look for public statements, social media posts etc.

Resolves based on statements, so even if someone acknowledges him as the winner but he ends up losing, that answer will still resolve yes.

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Jack, could you share the source for the Khaled answer’s YES resolution? The WAM article linked above names the UAE president and two vice presidents, not Crown Prince Khaled, and the commenter who proposed it acknowledged that correction. If there is a separate qualifying public statement, a link would settle the question. Otherwise, could this answer be reopened until the October 31 deadline? Disclosure: my M43.32 NO position has settled at a loss; I am recording that loss while asking for the evidence.

opened a Ṁ50 NO at 55% order

The linked WAM report (26 October 2026, 23:38 +04) names Mohamed bin Zayed, Mohammed bin Rashid, and Mansour bin Zayed. It does not name Crown Prince Khaled bin Mohamed, so that article alone is not evidence to resolve his answer YES. A separate public acknowledgement before the deadline could still qualify. I bought NO; my subjective YES forecast is 35%, not zero. Source: https://www.wam.ae/en/article/c2xrbj9-uae-president-vps-congratulate-brazilian-president

bought Ṁ10 NO

@jimbot you're right, I stand corrected

bought Ṁ10 NO
bought Ṁ1 YES

@Jack1 this is Venezuela's National Radio (RNV):

Clips of her statements can be seen on X.

@Jack1 according to the AP:

bought Ṁ15 NO

putin sent a public letter (“dear friend, please accept my most sincere congratulations”) https://www.democrata.es/en/international/putin-congratulates-lula-on-his-reelection-and-advocates-for-deepening-a-fruitful-bilateral-cooperation/


UAE already sent its official cables from MBZ and the two VPs, and khaled isn’t on the list, so its unlikely hes gonna do it seperately (https://gulfnews.com/uae/government/uae-president-vps-congratulate-brazilian-president-on-re-election-1.500724705).

obama and hillary haven’t said anything a full day later and aren’t in any of the big roundups, and these posts usually happen election night or never.

luxon is 12 days out from his own election, and NZ’s foreign minister already congratulated lula, so I doubt he's gonna bother.

just letting yall know my reasoning

oh yeah btw for xijinping china only congratulated through the foreign ministry spokesperson and just like luxon and khaled they most likely wont congratulate a second time personally. although in 2022 xi’s message came out the day after so its pretty risky.

https://www.chinanews.com.cn/gn/2026/10-26/10721154.shtml

btw big yahu most likely wont do it cuz currently israel-brazil ties are frozen and one of his own ministers is calling it fraud so pretty unlikely'Fraud': Netanyahu minister disputes Brazil election as Israel denounces Lula

bought Ṁ894 YES

@Jack1

sisi congratulated lula on his official social media accounts (its in arabic u might need to translate)
amwalalghad.com/2026/10/26/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%B3-%D8%A7%D9…%D9%81%D8%A7-%D8%A8%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%87/

bought Ṁ150 NO

Is this only positive acknowledgment or it doesn’t matter?

@LietKynes just has to recognise that he won

@Jack1 for instance: “Lula stole the election” counts as an acknowledgement?

@LietKynes no that doesn’t count

@Jack1 thanks!

bought Ṁ30 NO

@Jack1 Nz foreign minister has congrulated Lula, so Luxon might not need to now

Add Cyril Ramaphosa and other Brics leaders

bought Ṁ30 YES

@Hydromuon adding

Add Michelle Obama?

bought Ṁ30 YES

@Jack1 Thx

I might have been too generous after reviewing AB’s last tweet about buzzballs.

@MauveYellow it isn’t easy to be on multiple levels of power simultaneously.. it seems like his type of position.