Brazilian officials cancelled Flávio Bolsonaro's passports after he missed the deadline to hand them over, ordered by Brazil's Supreme Court amid an investigation into alleged money laundering

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva faces Senator Flávio Bolsonaro in a closely contested election. A Datafolha survey of 2,506 people, conducted 29 September–1 October across Brazil, put a hypothetical run-off at 48% to 45%; Reuters described the result as a statistical tie within the poll's two-point margin of error. The first round on 4 October produced a run-off between Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro.