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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has warned President Donald Trump not to interfere in Brazil’s October presidential election.

Getting into it: At a news conference after the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, Lula said Trump was free to keep backing the Bolsonaro family, “the father, the son, the grandson,” but had no business interfering, insisting “Brazil’s elections are Brazil’s business” and that he wanted the same respect for Brazil that he gives the United States. He added that Trump “doesn’t know Brazil well” if he understands it only through his ties to the Bolsonaros.

Lula is seeking a fourth term in October against his top rival, Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of Trump ally and former president Jair Bolsonaro, who was convicted of plotting a coup after losing to Lula in 2022. The spat flared on Tuesday, when Brazil’s top court handed another son, Eduardo Bolsonaro, four years for coercion, ruling he had leaned on the US to squeeze Brazilian officials over his father’s case.

Trump called Brazil “dangerous politically” and claimed authorities had arrested someone “doing well in the polls,” appearing to conflate Eduardo, the convicted brother, with Flavio, the candidate, who has not been arrested. Trump also suggested that Brazil’s elections were rigged and the State Department sided with Eduardo, casting the verdict as part of a “pattern of persecution and lawfare” against the government’s opponents.

Lula brushed off Trump’s criticism of Brazil’s electronic voting, offering to show him how the machines work and saying he could learn from how Brazil runs their elections.

This all comes as tensions between Trump and Lula have been elevated, especially over Trump’s proposed tariffs and the US decision to label two Brazilian drug gangs as foreign terrorist organizations.