Analysis: Lula in flak jacket, Brazil on edge as political killing mars campaign

Supporters react as Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attends a pre-campaign event in Brasilia, Brazil, July 12, 2022. REUTERS/Ton Molina

BRASILIA (Reuters) - The shooting over the weekend of an official in Brazil's leftist Workers' Party (PT) by a supporter of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro has inflamed fears of more political violence ahead of a heated election in October.

The local party official's death was the most dramatic case this year of a rising tide of political violence in the world's fourth-largest democracy, tracked by the Electoral Investigation Group (GIEL) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.