Lula defeats Bolsonaro to again become Brazil’s president
On Sunday the leftist defeated incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in an extremely tight election that marked an about-face for the country after four years of far-right politics, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has done it again: after first winning the Brazilian presidency twenty years. The election authority said that with more than 99% of the votes tallied in the runoff vote andDa Silva’s victory was a mathematical certainty, da Silva had 50.9% and Bolsonaro 49.1%. From the 2018 election that brought Bolsonaro it is a stunning reversal whose 2018 imprisonment over a corruption scandal sidelined him, a defender of conservative social values, to power, for da Silva, 77. Beyond his leftist Workers’ Party Da Silva is promising to govern. For the first time he wants to bring in centrists and even some leaning to the right who voted for him, and to restore the country’s more prosperous past. In a politically polarized society where economic growth is slowing and inflation is soaring yet he faces headwind...