Lula da Silva defeats Bolsonaro in Brazilian presidential runoff | USA TODAY

Lula da Silva narrowly defeated incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil's closest presidential election in over three decades.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has done it again: Twenty years after first winning the Brazilian presidency, the leftist defeated incumbent Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday in an extremely tight election that marks an about-face for the country after four years of far-right politics. With more than 99% of the votes tallied in the runoff vote, da Silva had 50.9% and Bolsonaro 49.1%, and the election authority said da Silva’s victory was a mathematical certainty.

It is a stunning reversal for da Silva, 77, whose 2018 imprisonment over a corruption scandal sidelined him from the 2018 election that brought Bolsonaro, a defender of conservative social values, to power.

Da Silva is promising to govern beyond his leftist Workers’s Party. He wants to bring in centrists and even some leaning to the right who voted for him for the first time, and to restore the country’s more prosperous past. Yet he faces headwinds in a politically polarized society where economic growth is slowing and inflation is soaring.

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[LordTemplarRMMH]

Uff!!! Another south American going down the drain 😢

[mrs.lilianfetters]

At least the democrats have somewhere to run to now.

[outlawbillionairez]

Real change comes to Brazil! The People kicked out the crime Lords. Now the US imperialists will think of ways to punish Brazil. Solidarity 🏴💪🏴