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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt">In one of the most combative presidential races in Brazil since the country's return to democracy in the 1980s, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva beat incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro Oct. 30 by less than 1%. Lula, who served as president from 2003-2010, will become the nation's 39th president upon his inauguration, Jan. 1.<o:p></o:p></p>

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's election in Brazil is the latest triumph for the left, which now controls six of Latin America's seven largest countries.

SÃO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s electoral authority said Sunday that Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the leftist Worker’s Party defeated incumbent Jair Bolsonaro to become the country’s next president.

The army has taken on a central role under outgoing president, but has remained silent in the month since the first round of the election

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is yet to concede after his defeat by left-wing rival Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in a razor-tight election.