Lula will be Brazil’s next president. Now for the hard part
The country is bitterly divided and short of cash
When Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was last in office, between 2003 and 2010, he used to quip that “God is Brazilian”. If so, the Almighty has a dark sense of humour. The presidential-election campaign that ended with a run-off on October 30th was one of the nastiest Brazil has ever endured, drenched in calumny and punctuated with violence. Lula, as the left-wing victor is known, won by a wafer-thin margin: 1.8 percentage points.
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “Now for the hard part”
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