Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva clinched a fourth term in a tight runoff against the son of jailed former president Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday.
The Leftist leader won 51.7 percent of the vote, compared to 48.2 percent for Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, official results showed.
Eighty-year-old Lula pulled off a dramatic turnaround after a shock second-place finish in the first round.
Flavio Bolsonaro had finished first in the election’s first round and hoped to revive his father’s far-Right movement and pardon him.
The shock result defied polls, precedent and global anti-incumbent sentiment to put the brakes on a wave of Right-wing election victories across
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