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SAO PAULO -- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has done it again: Twenty years after first winning the Brazilian presidency, the leftist defeated incumbent Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday in an extremely tight election that marks an about-face for the country after four years of far-right politics.
Jair Bolsonaro has so far remained silent, with the politician reportedly going straight to bed after he saw that veteran leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silver had beaten him in the presidential election.
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. With 98.8% of the votes tallied in the runoff vote, da Silva had 50.8%...
Da Silva — the country’s former president from 2003-2010 — has promised to restore the country’s more prosperous past.
Brazilians have delivered a very tight victory to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in a divisive presidential election, giving the leftist former president another shot at power in a rejection of incumbent Jair Bolsonaro’s far-right politics