While she attended as a spectator, Lula’s wife steered clear of joining the parade in an effort to avoid fueling any controversy, according to local media reports. Still, both Novo and Flavio Bolsonaro, the former president’s son and currently Lula’s strongest election rival, announced they intend to mount a legal challenge. Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party argued in a post on X that the parade served as political speech boosting Lula while launching an “unacceptable attack” on the elder Bolsonaro.