Brazil's incoming president Lula da Silva has a very long to-do list, but he faces challenges as the country is already struggling with the current global economic crisis and the costs caused by the COVID pandemic,
It is estimated 100 million people live in poverty, while more than 30 million Brazilians face acute hunger.
The commodities boom that allowed him to direct funding to huge societal projects doesn't exist any more. Under Mr Bolsonaro the Amazon rainforest was cast as a source of unending wealth with his belief that the exploitation of its enormous natural resources was in the national interest.Crowds erupt in celebration after Lula win
But the agribusiness is huge and its support and funding of politicians who are cut from the same cloth as Mr Bolsonaro is well recognised, and they are still in office.
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