Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has done it again: Twenty years after first winning the Brazilian presidency, the leftist defeated incumbent Jair Bolsonaro Sunday in an extremely tight election that marks an about-face for the country after four years of far-right politics.
It is a stunning return to power for Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva whose 2018 imprisonment over a corruption scandal sidelined him from that year’s election.
SAO PAULO (AP) — Far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva were very close in Brazil’s runoff presidential election with more than 97% of the votes tallied.
Brazilians are voting in a polarizing presidential runoff election pitting far-right President Jair Bolsonaro against his political nemesis, former leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Both are well-known, divisive
It is a stunning return to power for Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva whose 2018 imprisonment over a corruption scandal sidelined him from that year’s election.