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[^1]\n\nFormer Colombian president Gustavo Petro led a campaign of discrediting Colombia's voting system during the last elections, spreading unproven fraud alerts and refusing to recognize the first-round preliminary count. [^2]\n\nPenagos and Brazil's Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) president, minister Kassio Nunes Marques, signed a memorandum of understanding guaranteeing free deployment of international observers for the elections. [^3]\n\nThe main presidential candidates are Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, seeking reelection, and Flavio Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, representing the right. [^4]\n\nHernán Penagos will lead the first UNIORE advance team to Brazil to oversee the election process and ensure transparency. [^5]\n\nThe Brazilian electoral census includes approximately 160 million citizens, and the election will involve the selection of more than 1,650 positions. [^6]\n\nThe UNIORE International Observation Mission will observe the Brazilian presidential election scheduled to take place on October 4. [^7]\n\nPenagos will lead the Inter-American Union of Electoral Bodies (UNIORE), an entity that brings together electoral bodies from 20 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, alongside the Brazilian Superior Electoral Court. [^8]\n\nThe agreement for Penagos to lead the mission was ratified on a Tuesday in Brazil after the president of the Brazilian Superior Electoral Court and the Colombian National Electoral Registrar signed an understanding agreement. [^9]\n\nThe Brazilian general elections are scheduled for October 4 and involve the election of more than 1,650 positions, including president, vice president, governors, senators, and federal deputies. 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