Brazil’s incumbent president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won a historic fourth term as president on Sunday.
He held rally after rally, bringing millions of Brazilian on the streets. Eventually, the incumbent President staged a turnaround in the last few weeks to secure a victory Sunday. This is a breaking news.
It is the first time since the military dictatorship ended in the country in 1985 that a candidate trailing in the first round of Brazil’s election has come back to secure a win in the second. When the first round of votes was counted on October 4, Lula trailed Bolsonaro by 2.2 million votes. Since then, the soon-to-be 81-year-old reorganised his campaign and tried to reach out to young voters. Earlier reporting noted: With over 20% of tallies reported, Bolsonaro, the son of convicted former President Jair Bolsonaro, led with 50.02% to Lula’s 49.98%. Earlier reporting noted: A victory for Bolsonaro, 45, would extend a wave of right-wing victories for Latin American candidates friendly to US President Donald Trump, while a fourth mandate for Lula would be a bulwark against Washington’s influence in the region as his government has pushed back on US trade and security policies.
The win on Sunday was historic. Earlier reporting noted: Lula and Flavio Bolsonaro in neck-to-neck contest as counting continues in Brazil presidential elections Brazilian right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro overtook President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brazil’s tightly contested presidential runoff on Sunday evening, as results trickled in after a Supreme Court-mandated pause in vote counting injected confusion into an already tense runoff race.
The 80-year-old defeated Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of jailed former President Jair Bolsonaro, after securing 51.75% of the vote with over 98.76% of the votes counted, Brazil’s electoral court confirmed. Bolsonaro secured 48.25% of the votes. Lula, who first ran for president in 1989, had to wait till 2002 to taste his first victory, followed by another in 2006. The veteran politician was reelected in 2022 after a hiatus, that included 580 days in prison, for his third term.
