Brazil’s electoral authority says Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva has defeated incumbent Jair Bolsonaro to turn out to be the nation’s subsequent president.
The information on Sunday marked a shocking return to energy for the 77-year-old, of the leftist Staff’ Social gathering, who had led Brazil from 2003 to 2010.
His 2018 imprisonment over a corruption scandal sidelined him from that yr’s election, paving the way in which for then-candidate Bolsonaro’s win and 4 years of far-right politics.
The end result marked the primary time since Brazil’s 1985 return to democracy that the sitting president has did not win re-election.