Brazil election: Lula wins vote but run-off with Bolsonaro looms
Brazil’s acrimonious presidential race will go to a second round after the former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva failed to secure the overall majority he needed to avoid a run-off with the far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. With more than 99.5% of votes counted the leftist veteran had secured 48.3% of the vote, not enough to avoid a 30 October show down with his right-wing rival. Bolsonaro, who significantly out-performed pollsters’s predictions and will be buoyed by the result, received 43.3% Brazil election: ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wins vote but not outright victory ‘We want no more hatred’: leftwing ex-president Lula on verge of comeback in Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva: the former shoe-shine boy hoping to reclaim Brazil’s presidency Brazil elections 2022 live
