Brazil’s sitting president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has won the presidential election with 51.76 percent of the vote, with 99.81 percent of ballots counted. His rival, Flavio Bolsonaro, won 48.24 percent.
Lula secured victory by a narrow margin, and the win gives him a fourth term as Brazil’s president.
He had to fight hard to win the closely contested election, his fourth victory in a Brazilian presidential race.
Lula previously served two consecutive terms as president, from January 2003 to December 2010, and took office again in January 2023.
This win did not come easily. In the first round of voting on 4 October, Flavio Bolsonaro finished ahead of Lula, and few expected Lula to turn the result around in just three weeks.
Lula has also bucked a recent political trend in Latin America, where voters in several countries have rejected incumbents and chosen right-wing candidates. Conservative leaders are now in power in large countries such as Argentina, Chile and Colombia. Against that background, the left-wing leader has held on to power.
Sources: Al Jazeera, BBC, Reuters
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