It is the first time that an incumbent has failed to win re-election
FTER THE most nail-biting election in Brazil’s recent history, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will return for a third term as president after beating Jair Bolsonaro, the right-wing populist incumbent, in a run-off on October 30th. With nearly all votes counted, the left-leaning Lula, as he is known, won 50.9% to Mr Bolsonaro’s 49.1%, the tightest margin since Brazil’s return to democratic elections in 1989. .
Lula’s victory offers hope to environmentalists and indigenous groups after deforestation in the Amazon spiked under Mr Bolsonaro, and to Brazilians concerned about the populist president’s assaults on the country’s young democracy. “We are telling the world: Brazil is back,” the president-elect said in his victory speech. For poor voters, most of whom plumped for Lula, the economy was the key issue.
On several occasions the tense climate devolved into violence. At least seven people were killed in election-related disputes over the course of the campaign. A week before the run-off, a politician and ally of Mr Bolsonaro, Roberto Jefferson, threw grenades and shot a rifle at police officers who tried to arrest him at his home in the state of Rio de Janeiro, after he had threatened supreme court ministers on social media.
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